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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2014-03-13 13:54:46 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2014-03-13 13:54:46 (GMT)
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What's New in Python 3.4: more security changes
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@@ -143,6 +143,12 @@ Security improvements:
(:pep:`456`).
* :ref:`Make newly created file descriptors non-inheritable <whatsnew-pep-446>`
(:pep:`446`) to avoid leaking file descriptors to child processes.
+* New command line option for :ref:`isolated mode <whatsnew-isolated-mode>`,
+ (:issue:`16499`).
+* All modules of the standard library now support server certificate
+ verification including hostname matching (:func:`ssl.match_hostname`) and CRL
+ (Certificate Revocation list, see
+ :func:`ssl.SSLContext.load_verify_locations`).
* A new :func:`hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac` function provides
the `PKCS#5 password-based key derivation function 2
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2>`_.