[issue13636] Python SSL Stack doesn't have a Secure Default set of ciphers

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Wed Dec 21 18:22:15 CET 2011


Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Why make this decision ourselves at all? Copy what Mozilla and Chromium do
> by default.

If that translates to an explicit list of ciphers it will be a pain to
maintain. Using a generic OpenSSL string such as "DEFAULT:!LOW:[etc.]"
means OpenSSL mostly does the maintenance for us.

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