Support loading keys and certificates as variables (bytes) in particular in the load_cert_chain function

Proposal:

In MutualTLS Authentication scenarios it's useful to maintain client credential (private_key) confidentiality by allowing loading of the credential from encrypted key archives for example PKCS12. Python Cryptography and other modules allow loading of private keys into memory and at present we need to write those sensitive files to disk temporarily in order to load them into our TLS Client context.

This appears to be the existing code https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/a9c304cf020e2fa3ae78fd88359dfc808c9dd639/Modules/_ssl.c#L3899

    if (keyfile && !PyUnicode_FSConverter(keyfile, &keyfile_bytes)) {
        if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_TypeError)) {
            PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
                            "keyfile should be a valid filesystem path");
        }
        goto error;
    }

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

There is one somewhat similar feature request relating to loading from PKCS11 tokens. This is not related.

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

No response

Start in Modules/_ssl.c at the load_cert_chain implementation and the filesystem-path conversion shown in the issue. Review how the current function accepts key and certificate paths, then determine the API and test coverage needed for in-memory byte inputs. Done means credentials can be loaded from bytes without requiring temporary sensitive files.