pylibressl.lib

Various auxiliary routines

Intended only for internal use!

Module Contents

Functions

initialize_libressl()
get_libressl_error()	Report LibreSSL error w/o passing a string.
retrieve_bytes(cdata, size)	Retrieve byte string from cdata.
check_status(status_code, action=None)	Wrapper for status code processing.

pylibressl.lib.initialize_libressl()

pylibressl.lib.get_libressl_error()

Report LibreSSL error w/o passing a string.

Unrolls the whole error stack.

pylibressl.lib.retrieve_bytes(cdata, size)

Retrieve byte string from cdata.

pylibressl.lib.check_status(status_code, action=None)

Wrapper for status code processing.

Parameters

• status_code – value, returned by LibreSSL function

• action – type of status code verification

Action list:

• None or ‘simple’: check if status_code != 1

• ‘null’: check if status_code is NULL

• ‘auth’: check if status_code == 0 (authentication in GCM mode)

• ‘verify’: return True on 1, False on 0, raise exception on other

• ‘bio’: check if status code is positive (for BIO read/write)

• callable: call it with status_code as argument