bpo-31429: Define TLS cipher suite on build time by tiran · Pull Request #3532 · python/cpython

Until now Python used a hard coded white list of default TLS cipher
suites. The old approach has multiple downsides. OpenSSL's default
selection was completely overruled. Python did neither benefit from new
cipher suites (ChaCha20, TLS 1.3 suites) nor blacklisted cipher suites.
For example we used to re-enable 3DES.

Python now defaults to OpenSSL DEFAULT cipher suite selection and black
lists all unwanted ciphers. Downstream vendors can override the default
cipher list with --with-ssl-default-suites.

Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>

tiran deleted the bpo-31429-cipher-suite branch

sfackler added a commit to rust-openssl/rust-openssl that referenced this pull request

Based off of python/cpython#3532, we use OpenSSL's default cipher list
and turn of things we don't like. This can't be used with 1.0.1,
however, which had a poor default set. There, we use the old defaults,
with the bits that aren't implemented in 1.0.1 removed (namely TLSv1.3
suites and ChaCha).

sfackler added a commit to rust-openssl/rust-openssl that referenced this pull request

Based off of python/cpython#3532, we use OpenSSL's default cipher list
and turn of things we don't like. This can't be used with 1.0.1,
however, which had a poor default set. There, we use the old defaults,
with the bits that aren't implemented in 1.0.1 removed (namely TLSv1.3
suites and ChaCha).