[Python-Dev] PEP 466 (round 2): Network security enhancements for Python 2.7

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:10:18 +0100
"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> 
> The OpenSSL version used for 2.7.6 is 0.9.8y.
> 
> Upgrading to 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 will likely need a few minor tweaks, but
> not cause general breakage - at least that's my experience with
> the egenix-pyopenssl distribution.

For the record, if we had done that a few months ago, the breakage would
have been called Heartbleed.

Regards

Antoine.