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Author pitrou
Recipients Arfrever, alex, benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, dstufft, ezio.melotti, lemburg, ncoghlan, pitrou, r.david.murray, vstinner
Date 2014-03-20.23:40:30
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> The Python ssl module is used for servers and clients. Ideally servers will
> have prefer server ciphers on, but that doesn't always happen and providing
> a modern level of security for end users is preferable. 

We should have specific defaults for servers in
create_default_context().

> The
> danger for breakage here is *tiny*, *miniscule*, almost non existent and the
> failure case is obvious and easy to fix.

Again: the point is maintenance later, not breakage now.
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2014-03-20 23:40:30pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, lemburg, ncoghlan, vstinner, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, Arfrever, alex, r.david.murray, dstufft
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