On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 at 12:51 Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > [SNIP] > > > It would be really nice if we could deprecate `ssl` (which has a bunch of > OpenSSL specific stuff in it) and add a new `tls` module that served as an > implementation agnostic library that would use OpenSSL on *nix, > SecureTransport on macOS, and SChannel on Windows. However, in the mean > time there are some folks poking to see about making something pip suitable > that will enable us to use SecureTransport at least. >
I know both Cory Benfield and Christian Heimes brought this up briefly at the PyCon US 2016 language summit at the end of their SSL discussion, but I don't think it went anywhere because there was some other discussion that dominated the end of their talk (I've now tweeted at them about this discussion). I know Steve has also said he would love to see a agnostic TLS library so that Windows' built-in libraries for this stuff could be directly used. With the predicament this is going to put us in I think it makes it very prudent to create a tls module for the stdlib.
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