[issue20995] Use Better Default Ciphers for the SSL Module

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Fri Mar 21 00:11:54 CET 2014


Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> Again, Python is already forcing a set of ciphers. I don't know what sort of
> Systems you use, but even RHEL 6.5 has *horrible* ciphers by in the OpenSSL
> default set. Things like DES (not 3DES, DES) and 40bit RC4.

I wonder why RedHat doesn't bother changing the defaults.
Did nobody ever report the issue to them, or are they more conservative
than we are?

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