The opening session at the 2016 Python Language Summit concerned the ssl module in the standard library. Cory Benfield and Christian Heimes described some of the problems that the module suffers from ...
Given the NSA shenanigans, rumours of CAs being paid off or threatened by governments, and fiascos like DigiNotar, I am of the cynical opinion that checking SSL certificates against well-known CAs by ...
In 2012, a group of researchers demonstrated that SSL certificate validation is broken in many applications and libraries, and pointed out the root causes for that situation: badly designed APIs of ...