Issue #21043: Remove the recommendation for specific CA organizations

Closes #21043 by updating the documentation to remove specific CA
organizations and update the text to no longer need to tell you to
download root certificates, but instead use the OS certificates
avaialble through SSLContext.load_default_certs.

diff --git a/Doc/library/ssl.rst b/Doc/library/ssl.rst
index 9b74ccf28395df2644fc23219e666473cd8f5001..94a0c81904e738a388e0a12f63dad74098d31071 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/ssl.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ssl.rst
@@ -1339,20 +1339,9 @@ If you are going to require validation of the other side of the connection's
 certificate, you need to provide a "CA certs" file, filled with the certificate
 chains for each issuer you are willing to trust.  Again, this file just contains
 these chains concatenated together.  For validation, Python will use the first
-chain it finds in the file which matches.  Some "standard" root certificates are
-available from various certification authorities: `CACert.org
-<http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3>`_, `Thawte
-<http://www.thawte.com/roots/>`_, `Verisign
-<http://www.verisign.com/support/roots.html>`_, `Positive SSL
-<http://www.PositiveSSL.com/ssl-certificate-support/cert_installation/UTN-USERFirst-Hardware.crt>`_
-(used by python.org), `Equifax and GeoTrust
-<http://www.geotrust.com/resources/root_certificates/index.asp>`_.
-
-In general, if you are using SSL3 or TLS1, you don't need to put the full chain
-in your "CA certs" file; you only need the root certificates, and the remote
-peer is supposed to furnish the other certificates necessary to chain from its
-certificate to a root certificate.  See :rfc:`4158` for more discussion of the
-way in which certification chains can be built.
+chain it finds in the file which matches.  The platform's certificates file can
+be used by calling :meth:`SSLContext.load_default_certs`, this is done
+automatically with :func:`.create_default_context`.
 
 Combined key and certificate
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index dfdd194ecf98623a6e22fdc316eabad688a67c88..d1fbd4b06a1672d24f9f79c25e87edd4d890a9ed 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ Library
 Documentation
 -------------
 
+- Issue #21043: Remove the recommendation for specific CA organizations and to
+  mention the ability to load the OS certificates.
+
 - Issue #20765: Add missing documentation for PurePath.with_name() and
   PurePath.with_suffix().