Cherrypy Ssl Generate Private Key

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This repo contains a sample web app that demonstrates a secure login mechanismfor linux users using SSL on top of Bottle. The authentication mechanismrequires the app to be ran as root on a linux system, but this is just fordemonstration purposes. Other than authentication, the code is cross platformand python 2 and 3 compatible. See the Docker instructions if youwant to try out the sample app.

Introduction

Bottle is a great micro web framework that can be as minimalist orfeature rich as one wants. Bottle is great for rapid development and fordebugging. However, Bottle is not recommended to be deployed in productionwithout additional plugins, as it lacks security and speed.The developers of Bottle know this and so made Bottle easily extendible.

Note: Only the IBM Spectrum Scale Performance Monitoring Bridge for Grafana.version 2. supports the HTTPS(SSL) connection. To set up SSL communication between the bridge and the Grafana complete the following steps: 1. On the host, where you are running the bridge, generate a private key. Apr 08, 2016  So I've been using sabnzbd with the built-in self-signed certificate for years. As I was renewing my mail server cert I thought I'd create one for sabnzbd. After installing it the cherrypy web server would crash, manually editing the.ini to go back to the included ssl cert got me back up and running.

A common want in web programming is having a secure login page and to rememberthe logged in user. This cannot be achieved without extending Bottle throughvarious plugins. This project starts a web page that'll allow a user to log inover TLS 1.2 (other protocols are disabled) using their name and password on alinux server and remember the user through the use of a cookie.

Generate Ssl Public Key

Requirements:

  • Python 2.7.9, 3.4, or later. Minimum requirement to run Bottle and friends.
  • Bottle: This will be the web framework that will have everything based on it.
  • CherryPy (now cheroot): Bottle can't achieve SSL or heavytraffic, so this is where CherryPy comes in. Since CherryPy is based oncheroot, we'll be using cheroot directly.
  • Beaker: Will be used as Bottle middleware that allows session data.
  • OpenSSL: Program used to generate the self signed certificate.

Before you poetry install the pythondependencies you will need to install Openssl (most likely with the commandsudo apt-get install openssl)

OpenSSL and Self Signed Certificates

First the SSL certificate and private key are generated using OpenSSL. It isabsolutely critical to generate a private key with at least 1024 bits(recommended: 2048/4096) else you'll run into security or other issues (eg.Internet Explorer will not display the page no matter what if there are lessthan 1024 bits). The generated files, in this case are privkey.pem andcacert.pem. For simplicity's sake, these are stored inside the directory.

Bottle and SSL

Bottle documentation is sparse when it comes to SSL, but it is possible to getout-of-the box SSL depending on the chosen server.

This may be fine for some, but for those that don't want to be susceptible toinsecure defaults, we're going to need to customize the cheroot server. Mount and blade warband 1.168 serial key generator. Take alook at the code to see how!

Alternatives

Run app with gunicorn (one will need to slightly changethe code to return an app). Gunicorn will bring the speed and the ssl, so onecould get rid of CherryPy (cheroot). I definitely recommend checking outgunicorn for a middle of the road solution.

For a heavyweight solution run nginx, apache, HAProxy in front of bottle.

Testing SSL Configuration

sslyze will run a suite of checks on agiven site and report back which protocols, cipher suites, and vulnerabilitiesare available.

Docker

Generate Ssl Private Key

Included in this repo is a Dockerfile that spins up a bottle app using a selfsigned certificate and demonstrates authentication. Since this is a sample app,it's not uploaded to the registry but if you already have docker, buildingthe container is quite straightforward:

Cherrypy Ssl Generate Private Key File

Then navigate your browser to port 9443 of the docker machine. For theusername, enter BottleUser and for the password iambottle