============ PyOCSP

General Description

PyOCSP is a based on the idea of OpenCA's OCSP Responder released under the OpenCA Licence.

The purpose of PyOCSP is to provide a rfc2560 compliant OCSP responder.

To try PyOCSP::

$ pyocspd --help

Install

As for every python package, just run::

$ python setup.py install

Status

OCSP is in early stage of development. Don't blame me with it doesn't work.

Python Compatibility and Dependencies

PyOCSP is developped under python2.6 but must be compatible with > 2.5 python versions.

The following python package are needed to run pyocsp:

• pyasn1 : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyasn1/0.0.11a

Licencing

OCSP is released under GPL Licence.

References

OCSP with OPENSSL

• Certificate verification with openssl : http://backreference.org/2010/05/09/ocsp-verification-with-openssl/

RFCs

• RFC 2560 : http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2560.txt
• RFC 4557 : http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4557.txt
• RFC 5019 : http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5019.txt

Other OCSP Responder

• OpenCA OCSP Responder : http://www.openca.org/projects/ocspd/