1============================= 2Service Identity Verification 3============================= 4 5.. image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/service-identity/badge/?version=stable 6 :target: https://service-identity.readthedocs.io/en/stable/?badge=stable 7 :alt: Documentation Status 8 9.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/pyca/service_identity.svg?branch=master 10 :target: https://travis-ci.org/pyca/service_identity 11 :alt: CI status 12 13.. image:: https://codecov.io/github/pyca/service_identity/branch/master/graph/badge.svg 14 :target: https://codecov.io/github/pyca/service_identity 15 :alt: Test Coverage 16 17.. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-black-000000.svg 18 :target: https://github.com/ambv/black 19 :alt: Code style: black 20 21.. image:: https://www.irccloud.com/invite-svg?channel=%23cryptography-dev&hostname=irc.freenode.net&port=6697&ssl=1 22 :target: https://www.irccloud.com/invite?channel=%23cryptography-dev&hostname=irc.freenode.net&port=6697&ssl=1 23 24.. begin 25 26Use this package if: 27 28- you use pyOpenSSL_ and don’t want to be MITM_\ ed or 29- if you want to verify that a `PyCA cryptography`_ certificate is valid for a certain hostname or IP address. 30 31``service_identity`` aspires to give you all the tools you need for verifying whether a certificate is valid for the intended purposes. 32 33In the simplest case, this means *host name verification*. 34However, ``service_identity`` implements `RFC 6125`_ fully and plans to add other relevant RFCs too. 35 36``service_identity``\ ’s documentation lives at `Read the Docs <https://service-identity.readthedocs.io/>`_, the code on `GitHub <https://github.com/pyca/service_identity>`_. 37 38 39.. _Twisted: https://twistedmatrix.com/ 40.. _pyOpenSSL: https://pypi.org/project/pyOpenSSL/ 41.. _MITM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack 42.. _RFC 6125: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6125 43.. _PyCA cryptography: https://cryptography.io/ 44