FS#73549 - [python] Allow using system-wide openssl config instead of the hardcoded Python's list of ciphers

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Michał Sałaban (emesik) - Saturday, 29 January 2022, 16:37 GMT
Last edited by Buggy McBugFace (bugbot) - Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:23 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Since Python 3.10 there's a hardcoded default list of openssl ciphers specified when initializing the SSL/TLS layer.

By adding `--with-ssl-default-suites=openssl` option to the `./configure` script, it allows Python to use the system-wide OpenSSL configuration, which is much more convenient. Especially regarding to SECLEVEL setting and problems reported by users, like:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1233186/ubuntu-20-04-how-to-set-lower-ssl-security-level

The solution described above doesn't work in Arch because of hardcoded list of capabilities.
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Closed by  Buggy McBugFace (bugbot)
Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:23 GMT
Reason for closing:  Moved
Additional comments about closing:  https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/p ackaging/packages/python/issues/4
Comment by Kai (halan) - Thursday, 03 March 2022, 23:54 GMT
What was the rationale for adding this hardcoded list? This seems quite dangerous as increasing the systems-wide security level will not affect any python applications.
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Friday, 04 March 2022, 00:16 GMT
@halan https://bugs.python.org/issue43998

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