Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: srp
Version: 1.0
Summary: Secure Remote Password
Home-page: http://code.google.com/p/pysrp/
Author: Tom Cocagne
Author-email: tom.cocagne@gmail.com
License: New BSD
Download-URL: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pysrp
Description: 
        
        This package provides an implementation of the Secure Remote Password
        protocol (SRP). SRP is a cryptographically strong authentication
        protocol for password-based, mutual authentication over an insecure
        network connection.
        
        Unlike other common challenge-response autentication protocols, such
        as Kereros and SSL, SRP does not rely on an external infrastructure
        of trusted key servers or certificate management. Instead, SRP server
        applications use verification keys derived from each user's password
        to determine the authenticity of a network connection.
        
        SRP provides mutual-authentication in that successful authentication
        requires that both sides of the connection must have knowledge of the
        user's password. If the client side lacks the user's password or the
        server side lacks the proper verification key, the authentication will
        fail.
        
        Unlike SSL, SRP does not directly encrypt all data flowing through
        the authenticated connection. However, successful authentication does
        result in a cryptographically strong shared key that can be used
        for symmetric-key encryption.
        
        For a full description of the pysrp package and the SRP protocol,
        please refer to the `srp module documentation`_.
        
        .. _`srp module documentation`: http://packages.python.org/pysrp
        
        
Platform: OS Independent
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: C
Classifier: Topic :: Security