[Python-Dev] Supported versions of OpenSSL

[Nick Coghlan]

On 29 August 2016 at 21:05, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 8:52 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For upcoming 3.6 I would like to limit support to 1.0.2+ and require
>> 1.0.2 features for 3.7.
>
> What does "limit support" mean? Will it be possible to build CPython
> 3.6 against OpenSSL 1.0.1?

Christian clarified this later in the thread:

- full support is stating confidently that software running that way
is using network connections that are as secure as we know how to make
them
- build support is ensuring it builds, without vouching one way or the
other for the security of the resulting network connections
- no support is "it doesn't build, but even if it did, we wouldn't
vouch for the security of the resulting connections"

Cheers,
Nick.

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