Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

As I said, I don't think maintaining an explicit list of ciphers ourselves is 
reasonable, since there are no crypto experts (AFAICT) amongst the Python core 
developers.

Also, maintaining an explicit list of ciphers means people wouldn't benefit 
automatically from new ciphers unless Python itself is modified.

However, as I've proposed on issue13627, we could call set_ciphers("HIGH") by 
default. This excludes legacy ciphers (such as RC4, DES) without having us 
maintain an explicit list.

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nosy: +gregory.p.smith, pitrou
stage:  -> needs patch
type:  -> security
versions:  -Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.4

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