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Author alex
Recipients CristiFati, alex, christian.heimes, dstufft, giampaolo.rodola, janssen, pitrou
Date 2016-07-22.18:09:45
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I'm opposed to adding FIPS knobs to Python's SSL module for a few reasons:

- FIPS is a bad standard (which I'm happy to talk at length about)
- OpenSSL is regularly on the verge of dropping FIPS support (https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2016/07/20/fips/ is the most recent rescue from the brink of removal)
- It further ties us to the OpenSSL API, in favor of being a more general purpose SSL API.
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2016-07-22 18:09:46alexsetrecipients: + alex, janssen, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola, christian.heimes, dstufft, CristiFati
2016-07-22 18:09:46alexsetmessageid: <1469210986.32.0.803946267736.issue27592@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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