view mercurial/policy.py @ 29577:9654ef41f7cc

sslutil: support defining cipher list

Python 2.7 supports specifying a custom cipher list to TLS sockets.
Advanced users may wish to specify a custom cipher list to increase
security. Or in some cases they may wish to prefer weaker ciphers
in order to increase performance (e.g. when doing stream clones
of very large repositories).

This patch introduces a [hostsecurity] config option for defining
the cipher list. The help documentation states that it is for
advanced users only.

Honestly, I'm a bit on the fence about providing this because
it is a footgun and can be used to decrease security. However,
there are legitimate use cases for it, so I think support should
be provided.

# policy.py - module policy logic for Mercurial.
#
# Copyright 2015 Gregory Szorc <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import os
import sys

# Rules for how modules can be loaded. Values are:
#
#    c - require C extensions
#    allow - allow pure Python implementation when C loading fails
#    cffi - required cffi versions (implemented within pure module)
#    cffi-allow - allow pure Python implementation if cffi version is missing
#    py - only load pure Python modules
#
# By default, require the C extensions for performance reasons.
policy = 'c'
policynoc = ('cffi', 'cffi-allow', 'py')
policynocffi = ('c', 'py')

try:
    from . import __modulepolicy__
    policy = __modulepolicy__.modulepolicy
except ImportError:
    pass

# PyPy doesn't load C extensions.
#
# The canonical way to do this is to test platform.python_implementation().
# But we don't import platform and don't bloat for it here.
if '__pypy__' in sys.builtin_module_names:
    policy = 'cffi'

# Our C extensions aren't yet compatible with Python 3. So use pure Python
# on Python 3 for now.
if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
    policy = 'py'

# Environment variable can always force settings.
policy = os.environ.get('HGMODULEPOLICY', policy)