Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment:

Apart from the question of API, please also include a section on the legal 
implications this move would have on Python in the PEP.

We currently only include OpenSSL in the Windows installers and (for some 
reason) don't pay much attention to the implications this has (the fact is not 
mentioned on the download page and the Windows installer doesn't show the 
required OpenSSL old-style BSD attribution).

If we are to require OpenSSL or some other crypto lib, possibly even our own 
(e.g. pycrypto) for all platforms, then we could no longer just ignore the fact 
that crypto code is subject to strong legislation in many countries of the 
world.

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nosy: +lemburg

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