[Python-Dev] Python 3.7: Require OpenSSL >=1.0.2 / LibreSSL >= 2.5.3

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 23:45:07 +0100
Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:
> On 2018-01-13 21:02, Brett Cannon wrote:
> > +1 from me as well for the improved security.  
> 
> Thanks, Brett!
> 
> How should we handle CPython's Travis CI tests? The 14.04 boxes have
> OpenSSL 1.0.1. To the best of my knowledge, Travis doesn't offer 16.04.
> We could either move to container-based testing with a 16.04 container,
> which would give us 1.0.2 Or we could compile our own copy of OpenSSL
> with my multissl builder and use some rpath magic.

I don't think you need some rpath magic, just set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
the right value.

Regards

Antoine.