M2Crypto is an open source Python cryptography and SSL toolkit. This product is an installer for M2Crypto which installs the M2Crypto source and DLLs into your Python installation.

Python is a popular object-oriented programming language that combines remarkable power with very clean syntax. Python is used in business, high-tech, science, education, government and many other fields.

M2Crypto offers the Python programmer the following:
- RSA, DSA, DH, HMACs, message digests, symmetric ciphers (including AES).
- SSL functionality to implement clients and servers.
- HTTPS extensions to Python's httplib, urllib and xmlrpclib.
- PKI functionality.
- Unforgeable HMAC'ing AuthCookies for web session management.
- FTP/TLS client and server.
- S/MIME.
- ZServerSSL: A HTTPS server for Zope.
- ZSmime: An S/MIME messenger for Zope.