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authorChristian Heimes <christian@python.org>2016-09-06 18:07:58 (GMT)
committerChristian Heimes <christian@python.org>2016-09-06 18:07:58 (GMT)
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Issues #27850 and #27766: Remove 3DES from ssl default cipher list and add ChaCha20 Poly1305.
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@@ -85,6 +85,12 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
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+- Issue #27850: Remove 3DES from ssl module's default cipher list to counter
+ measure sweet32 attack (CVE-2016-2183).
+
+- Issue #27766: Add ChaCha20 Poly1305 to ssl module's default ciper list.
+ (Required OpenSSL 1.1.0 or LibreSSL).
+
- Issue #25387: Check return value of winsound.MessageBeep.
- Issue #27866: Add SSLContext.get_ciphers() method to get a list of all