Bill, I agree that it's usually better to let the SSL implementation pick the ciphers.
I have a certain device that I'd like to talk to that is running on an underpowered embedded CPU. When I let OpenSSL pick the ciphers, it chooses something like EDH-RSA-AES-SHA and takes about 3.5 seconds to finish the handshake. If I can restrict the cipher list to RSA-RC4-SHA I can reduce the handshake time to less than a second and improve the throughput of any bulk data transfer over the connection. --Chris On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Bill Janssen<jans...@parc.com> wrote: > Thanks, Chris. Can you explain why you want to set the cipher list > explicitly? IMO, it's usually better to select a security scheme (TLS1, > or SSLv3, etc.), and let the implementation pick the cipher list. > > Bill > > Chris Frantz <frant...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Done. >> >> Attached to Issue 3597, which is a similar request to mine. >> >> Best Regards, >> --Chris >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> Python-Dev@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> Unsubscribe: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/janssen%40parc.com > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
