Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:47:22 -0700 sslutil: config option to specify TLS protocol version
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:47:22 -0700] rev 29559
sslutil: config option to specify TLS protocol version Currently, Mercurial will use TLS 1.0 or newer when connecting to remote servers, selecting the highest TLS version supported by both peers. On older Pythons, only TLS 1.0 is available. On newer Pythons, TLS 1.1 and 1.2 should be available. Security-minded people may want to not take any risks running TLS 1.0 (or even TLS 1.1). This patch gives those people a config option to explicitly control which TLS versions Mercurial should use. By providing this option, one can require newer TLS versions before they are formally deprecated by Mercurial/Python/OpenSSL/etc and lower their security exposure. This option also provides an easy mechanism to change protocol policies in Mercurial. If there is a 0-day and TLS 1.0 is completely broken, we can act quickly without changing much code. Because setting the minimum TLS protocol is something you'll likely want to do globally, this patch introduces a global config option under [hostsecurity] for that purpose. wrapserversocket() has been taught a hidden config option to define the explicit protocol to use. This is queried in this function and not passed as an argument because I don't want to expose this dangerous option as part of the Python API. There is a risk someone could footgun themselves. But the config option is a devel option, has a warning comment, and I doubt most people are using `hg serve` to run a production HTTPS server (I would have something not Mercurial/Python handle TLS). If this is problematic, we can go back to using a custom extension in tests to coerce the server into bad behavior.
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:07:10 -0700 sslutil: prevent CRIME
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:07:10 -0700] rev 29558
sslutil: prevent CRIME ssl.create_default_context() disables compression on the TLS channel in order to prevent CRIME. I think we should follow CPython's lead and attempt to disable channel compression in order to help prevent information leakage. Sadly, I don't think there is anything we can do on Python versions that don't have an SSLContext, as there is no way to set channel options with the limited ssl API.
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