Use this package if: - you want to verify that a PyCA cryptography certificate is valid for a certain hostname or IP address, - or if you use pyOpenSSL and don’t want to be MITMed, - or if you want to inspect certificates from either for service IDs. service-identity aspires to give you all the tools you need for verifying whether a certificate is valid for the intended purposes. In the simplest case, this means host name verification. However, service-identity implements RFC 6125 fully.