On 2014年3月13日 14:57:41 +0100 Victor Stinner <[email protected]> wrote: > 2014年03月13日 11:49 GMT+01:00 Christian Heimes <[email protected]>: > > * All stdlib modules now support server cert verification including > > hostname matching and CRL. > > > > * http://bugs.python.org/issue16499 isolated mode is a security > > improvement, too. > > Ok, I added these two items. > > Antoine wrote: > > CRL? really? I don't remember us doing automatic CRL downloads. > > It's just the "support", nothing is automatic. I understood that you > *can* load CRL and ask for CRL validation, but it must be done > explicitly. There is a function to retrieve system CRLs on Windows.
Then you should perhaps make your phrasing more explicit, because people may wrongly assume that CRL checking will be done automatically (IMHO). (especially since hostname checking, AFAIK, *is* automatic now) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com