Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory

Re:Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory by philh on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @08:10AM (#13540409)

I have no particular knowledge about this, but I just tried with a python2.6 (from one of Amazon's EC2 images) and it seemed to work:

    $ /usr/bin/python26
    Python 2.6.9 (unknown, Dec 17 2015, 01:08:55)
    [GCC 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9)] on linux2
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import json, urllib2
    >>> json.load(urllib2.urlopen('https://www.howsmyssl.com/a/check'))['tls_version']
    u'TLS 1.2'

Uh, but it does have a "bad" rating for other reasons (looks like it supports some insecure cypher suites).

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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory by smarx007 on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @08:45AM (#13540625)

Actually, you are right (but should have been tested on CentOS 6&7):

    Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 18 19:25:05 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
    Python 2.6.6
    TLS 1.2

    Linux localhost.localdomain 3.10.0-514.2.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Dec 6 23:06:41 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
    Python 2.7.5
    TLS 1.2

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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory by amyjess on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @10:14AM (#13541276)

Tested on RHEL 7 (actual RHEL, not CentOS), got TLS 1.2 for both:

    $ python2 --version
    Python 2.7.5
    $ python2 -c "import json, urllib2; print json.load(urllib2.urlopen('https://www.howsmyssl.com/a/check'))['tls_version']"
    TLS 1.2

    $ python3 --version
    Python 3.4.5
    $ python3 -c "import json, urllib.request; print(json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen('https://www.howsmyssl.com/a/check').read().decode('UTF-8'))['tls_version'])"
    TLS 1.2

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