wincertstore provides an interface to access Windows' CA and CRL certificates. It uses ctypes and Windows's sytem cert store API through crypt32.dll.
Warning
Security Fix
wincertstore 0.1 used to return all certificates although some are not suitable to verify TLS/SSL server certificates. wincertstore 0.2 only returns certificates for SERVER_AUTH enhanced key usage by default.
import wincertstore
for storename in ("CA", "ROOT"):
with wincertstore.CertSystemStore(storename) as store:
for cert in store.itercerts(usage=wincertstore.SERVER_AUTH):
print(cert.get_pem().decode("ascii"))
print(cert.get_name())
print(cert.enhanced_keyusage_names())SERVER_AUTH is the default enhanced key usage. In order to get all certificates for any usage, use None. The module offers more OIDs like CLIENT_AUTH, too.
For Python versions without the with statement:
for storename in ("CA", "ROOT"):
store = wincertstore.CertSystemStore(storename)
try:
for cert in store.itercerts():
print(cert.get_pem().decode("ascii")
finally:
store.close()CertFile helper:
import wincertstore
import atexit
import ssl
certfile = wincertstore.CertFile()
certfile.addstore("CA")
certfile.addstore("ROOT")
atexit.register(certfile.close) # cleanup and remove files on shutdown)
ssl_sock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock,
ca_certs=certfile.name,
cert_reqs=ssl.CERT_REQUIRED)- Python 2.3 to 3.3
- Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or newer
- ctypes 1.0.2 (Python 2.3 and 2.4) from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctypes/
Copyright (c) 2013, 2014 by Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
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