python and openSSL

Wed Sep 9 21:56:15 EDT 2009

On 9 Sep, 01:30 pm, lucabel at gmail.com wrote:
>Hi all.
>I need a trick to do something like this:
>>openssl smime -decrypt -verify -inform DER -in ReadmeDiKe.pdf.p7m
>-noverify -out ReadmeDike.pdf
>>To unwrap a p7m file and read his content.
>>I know that I could use somthing like:
>>>>import os
>>>>os.system('openssl ....')
>>but i would use a python library to wrap openssl.
>>I've already install pyOpenSSL, but I can not understand how to run the 
>same
>command.

pyOpenSSL wraps the parts of OpenSSL which deal with S/MIME. I think 
that M2Crypto does, though I haven't used those parts of it myself.
Jean-Paul