From 4137465bf546964736e45bed16a15d05000b26e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Donald Stufft Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:26:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 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. --- Doc/library/ssl.rst | 17 +++-------------- Misc/NEWS | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/ssl.rst b/Doc/library/ssl.rst index 9b74ccf283..94a0c81904 100644 --- 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 -`_, `Thawte -`_, `Verisign -`_, `Positive SSL -`_ -(used by python.org), `Equifax and GeoTrust -`_. - -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 dfdd194ecf..d1fbd4b06a 100644 --- 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(). -- 2.40.0