On Mar 26, 2014, at 8:00 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Guido and Antoine persuaded me that selective backports would be a > better idea for the network security enhancements than the wholesale > module backports previously suggested, while Alex and Donald provided > the necessary additional details, so here's a revised version of the > PEP. Despite making it more explicit, I deleted more lines than I > added, strongly suggesting that switching to selective backports was > the right call :) > > I dealt with the SSL module the way Donald suggested: excluding the > RAND_* functions, rather than listing everything else. > > I also changed the headings to make it clear the listed alternatives > were rejected ideas, made the footnotes a bit more readable, and > tidied up the wording in a few places. > > Diff: http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/8527f6e2beb0 > Web: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0466/ > > ========================== > PEP: 466 > Title: Network Security Enhancement Exception for Python 2.7 > Version: $Revision$ > Last-Modified: $Date$ > Author: Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>, > Status: Draft > Type: Informational > Content-Type: text/x-rst > Created: 23-Mar-2014 > Post-History: 23-Mar-2014, 24-Mar-2014, 25-Mar-2014, 26-Mar-2014 > > <snip> This looks reasonable to me still and still solves the major problems that trying to securely use the 2.7 series has. +1 From me. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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