[issue3596] Provide a way to disable SSLv2 (or better yet, disable by default)

[Heikki Toivonen]

New submission from Heikki Toivonen <hjtoi-bugzilla at comcast.net>:

There should be a way to disable SSLv2 since it is insecure. It would be
even better if SSLv2 was disabled out of the box, but maybe there could
be a way to re-enable it.

I made the default to disable SSLv2 in M2Crypto, but those that want it
can explicitly request unsecure connection. You can take a look at
http://svn.osafoundation.org/m2crypto/trunk/M2Crypto/SSL/Context.py to
see how I did it.

Modern web browsers are also removing SSLv2 support from them, so it
should be really rare to actually need v2 anywhere.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 71404
nosy: heikki
severity: normal
status: open
title: Provide a way to disable SSLv2 (or better yet, disable by default)
type: security
versions: Python 2.6

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