[Python-Dev] Python 3.7: Require OpenSSL >=1.0.2 / LibreSSL >= 2.5.3

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 02:23:19PM +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 13:54:33 +0100
> Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:
> > 
> > If we agree to drop support for OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 1.0.1, then I can land
> > bunch of useful goodies like proper hostname verification [2], proper
> > fix for IP address in SNI TLS header [3], PEP 543 compatible Certificate
> > and PrivateKey types (support loading certs and keys from file and
> > memory) [4], and simplified cipher suite configuration [5]. I can
> > finally clean up _ssl.c during the beta phase, too.
> 
> Given the annoyance of supporting old OpenSSL versions, I'd say +1 to
> this.
> 
> We'll have to deal with the complaints of users of Debian oldstable,
> CentOS 6 and RHEL 6, though.

It will probably be more work for Christian, but is it reasonable to 
keep support for the older versions of OpenSSL, but make the useful 
goodies conditional on a newer version?



-- 
Steve