[Bug 1443704] Re: Support for TLS 1.2 not present (added in 2.7.9)

[Bryan Quigley]

This would be fixed if
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python2.7/+bug/1348955 moves.

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Title:
  Support for TLS 1.2 not present (added in 2.7.9)

Status in python2.7 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  There are security issues with TLS 1.0, but Python 2.7.9 doesn't
  explicitly support TLS 1.2, so programs written in python can't
  necessarily use it on 14.04.   This is requiring me to do a manual
  install of a more recent version of python, which is fine, but if this
  is an LTS release lack of support for TLS 1.2 is going to become an
  even bigger problem going forward.   This is specifically a problem
  with the getmail package.

  ksanti% lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
  Release:        14.04

  root at ksanti:/home/mellon/.getmail# apt-cache policy python2.7
  python2.7:
    Installed: 2.7.6-8
    Candidate: 2.7.6-8
    Version table:
   *** 2.7.6-8 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  What I'm expecting:

  root at ksanti:/home/mellon/Python-2.7.9# python
  Python 2.7.9 (default, Apr 13 2015, 19:47:19) 
  [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> import ssl
  >>> 'PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2' in dir(ssl)
  True

  What I get:

  root at ksanti:/home/mellon/Python-2.7.9# /usr/bin/python
  Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56) 
  [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> import ssl
  >>> 'PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2' in dir(ssl)
  False

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