CertWiz

CertWiz is a Python module that simplifies the creation of self-signed x509 certificates.

Usage

see normal_use.py for example

The default settings file should contain the following keys before operation

[settings]
ssl_dir
ssl_key_file
ssl_cert_file
ssl_version
ssl_cert_reqs
ssl_ciphers
host
base_url
[secure]
ssl_key_file_password

Certwiz will populate these values if not already present using a series of defaults that may be edited after the first run

ensure an existing build_settings object is passed

from build_settings import BuildSettings

setpath = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
settings = BuildSettings(setpath + '/tests_output.ini', setpath + '/tests.ini')

Import and call certwiz

from certwiz import certwiz

certwiz(settings)

The resulting configuration file (located within the project directory)

[settings]
ssl_dir = '.ssl'
base_url = localhost
use_ssl = True
ssl_key_file = '.ssl/ss.key'
ssl_cert_file = '.ssl/ss.crt'
ssl_version = ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23
ssl_cert_reqs = ssl.CERT_OPTIONAL
ssl_ciphers = TLSv1
host = <your ip address>
[secure]
ssl_key_file_password = 3215ddaa-4d4f-4948-bb6e-a81f94e1fbb0

If one wishes to use properly signed certificates, simply update the configuration to reflect those values (self-signed certificates and the matching configuration will only be created if the ssl_cert_file and ssl_key_file values do not point to existing files)

It is important to note that the self-signed certificates are hostname specific and may experience problems should it be changed. This can be resolved by simple removing the self-signed certificate files and re-running certwiz

Installation

You can install CertWiz using pip:

pip install certwiz