On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:43:02 -0700, John Nagle wrote: > The new SSL module in Python 2.6 There isn't an SSL module in Python 2.6. There is a module named "ssl" which pretends to implement SSL, but in fact doesn't. > is convenient, but insecure. In which case, it isn't actually convenient, in any meaningful sense of the word.