You need the following packages installed so that the Paramiko module installation can be completed successfully:
yum install python-devel
yum install libffi-devel
yum install -y openssl-devel
[root@localhost python2.7]# pip install paramiko
Collecting paramiko
Using cached paramiko-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting cryptography>=1.1 (from paramiko)
Using cached cryptography-1.5.tar.gz
Requirement already satisfied (use –upgrade to upgrade): pyasn1>=0.1.7 in ./site-packages (from paramiko)
Requirement already satisfied (use –upgrade to upgrade): idna>=2.0 in ./site-packages (from cryptography>=1.1->paramiko)
Requirement already satisfied (use –upgrade to upgrade): six>=1.4.1 in ./site-packages (from cryptography>=1.1->paramiko)
Requirement already satisfied (use –upgrade to upgrade): setuptools>=11.3 in ./site-packages (from cryptography>=1.1->paramiko)
Requirement already satisfied (use –upgrade to upgrade): enum34 in ./site-packages (from cryptography>=1.1->paramiko)
Requirement already satisfied (use –upgrade to upgrade): ipaddress in ./site-packages (from cryptography>=1.1->paramiko)
Requirement already satisfied (use –upgrade to upgrade): cffi>=1.4.1 in /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages (from cryptography>=1.1->paramiko)
Requirement already satisfied (use –upgrade to upgrade): pycparser in ./site-packages (from cffi>=1.4.1->cryptography>=1.1->paramiko)
Building wheels for collected packages: cryptography
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for cryptography … done
Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/d4/98/43/a428a8aed7285f934d18efd787647455d7ef9a9dda81f22839
Successfully built cryptography
Installing collected packages: cryptography, paramiko
Found existing installation: cryptography 0.8.2
Uninstalling cryptography-0.8.2:
Successfully uninstalled cryptography-0.8.2
Successfully installed cryptography-1.5 paramiko-2.0.2
[root@localhost python2.7]#
Note: Paramiko is a Python (2.6+, 3.3+) implementation of the SSHv2 protocol providing both client and server functionality.
If you want to know more about Paramiko module. Please go to http://www.paramiko.org