[New-bugs-announce] [issue22935] Disabling SSLv3 support

[Kurt Roeckx]

New submission from Kurt Roeckx:

Hi,

The attached patch makes python work when openssl doesn't have SSLv3 support.  It also updates the documentation, which has already improved a lot since my original patch.

The current upstream openssl when compiled with no-ssl2 it defines OPENSSL_NO_SSL2, drops the SSLv2_* method and drops support for SSLv2 in the SSLv23_* methods.  When build with no-ssl3 it defines OPENSSL_NO_SSL3 and currently just drops supports for SSLv3 in the SSLv23_method, it does not yet drop the SSLv3_* methods.  It's still being argued whether no-ssl3 should drop those symbols or that a new option will be used instead.

So that means that with OPENSSL_NO_SSL3 defined it could be that the SSLv3_* methods still exist and that you can create a socket that only support SSLv3.

I made the SSLv3 methods go away in python if OPENSSL_NO_SSL3 is defined.  This at least makes things easier for the test suite so that you know you can test a combination like v3 with v23 or not.

This patch is for 2.7.  Please let me know if you need a patch for a different version.

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files: python2.7-nossl3.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 231624
nosy: kroeckx
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Disabling SSLv3 support
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file37268/python2.7-nossl3.patch

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