python-smail 0.5.1

Simple S/MIME e-mails with Python3

This library makes it simple to create S/MIME messages in Python. It supports signing (using RSA keys), encryption (using a public RSA key, in AES128-CBC, AES192-CBC or AES256-CBC modes) and the combination of both - where the message is first signed and the result is then encrypted (“enveloped”).

The foundation of python-smail is the cryptography library which provides access to the C-bindings of OpenSSL and implements many high and low level functionality. Additionally asn1crypto is used which is “A fast, pure Python library for parsing and serializing ASN.1 structures.”.

Requirements

• Python 3.5+

• cryptography (for OpenSSL C-bindings)

• asn1crypto

Example

Encryption

The code below loads Bob’s public key in PEM format and uses it to encrypt the e-mail in S/MIME format:

import os
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.utils import formatdate
from smail import encrypt_message

message = MIMEText("This a plain text body!")
message['Date'] = formatdate(localtime=True)
message['From'] = "[e-mail]"
message['To'] = "[e-mail]"
message['Subject'] = "Text Message - Encrypted"

with open(os.path.join('tests', 'testdata', 'BobRSASignByCarl.pem'), 'rb') as cert_file:
    cert = cert_file.read()

encrypted_message = encrypt_message(message, cert)
print(encrypted_message.as_string())

Output:

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-mime; smime-type=enveloped-data; name=smime.p7m
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=smime.p7m
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 19:58:17 +0100
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Plain Text Message

MIIBhwYJKoZIhvcNAQcDoIIBeDCCAXQCAQAxgb4wgbsCAQAwJjASMRAwDgYDVQQD
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Signing

The code below loads Alice’s private and public key in PEM format and uses it to sign the e-mail in S/MIME format:

import os
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.utils import formatdate
from smail import sign_message

message = MIMEText("This a plain text body!")
message['Date'] = formatdate(localtime=True)
message['From'] = "[e-mail]"
message['To'] = "[e-mail]"
message['Subject'] = "Text Message - Signed"

with open(os.path.join('tests', 'testdata', 'AliceRSASignByCarl.pem'), 'rb') as cert_signer_file:
    cert_signer = cert_signer_file.read()

with open(os.path.join('tests', 'testdata', 'AlicePrivRSASign.pem'), 'rb') as key_signer_file:
    key_signer = key_signer_file.read()

signed_message = sign_message(message, cert_signer, key_signer)
print(signed_message.as_string())

Output:

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg="sha-256"; boundary="----39D1127DF0061CD9BB50644B14CCEF86"
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:02:11 +0100
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Plain Text Message

This is an S/MIME signed message

------39D1127DF0061CD9BB50644B14CCEF86
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

This a plain text body!
------39D1127DF0061CD9BB50644B14CCEF86
Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s"

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------39D1127DF0061CD9BB50644B14CCEF86--

Sign and Encrypt

The code below loads Alice’s private and public key and also Bob’s public key in PEM format and uses it to sign and encrypt the e-mail (from Alice to Bob) in S/MIME format:

import os
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.utils import formatdate
from smail import sign_and_encrypt_message

message = MIMEText("This a plain text body!")
message['Date'] = formatdate(localtime=True)
message['From'] = "[e-mail]"
message['To'] = "[e-mail]"
message['Subject'] = "Text Message - Signed and Encrypted"

with open(os.path.join('tests', 'testdata', 'AliceRSASignByCarl.pem'), 'rb') as cert_signer_file:
    cert_signer = cert_signer_file.read()

with open(os.path.join('tests', 'testdata', 'AlicePrivRSASign.pem'), 'rb') as key_signer_file:
    key_signer = key_signer_file.read()

with open(os.path.join('tests', 'testdata', 'BobRSASignByCarl.pem'), 'rb') as cert_file:
    cert = cert_file.read()

signed_encrypted_message = sign_and_encrypt_message(message, cert_signer, key_signer, cert)
print(signed_encrypted_message.as_string())

Output:

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-mime; smime-type=enveloped-data; name=smime.p7m
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=smime.p7m
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:05:34 +0100
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Text Message - Signed and Encrypted

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Acknowledgements

Python SMAIL is heavily inspired by python-smime and is actually a fork of that code base. All credits go to original Author(s).

License

This software is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See the LICENSE file in the top distribution directory for the full license text.

Versioning

This software follows Semantic Versioning