bpo-31429: Define TLS cipher suite on build time (#3532)

Until now Python used a hard coded white list of default TLS cipher
suites. The old approach has multiple downsides. OpenSSL's default
selection was completely overruled. Python did neither benefit from new
cipher suites (ChaCha20, TLS 1.3 suites) nor blacklisted cipher suites.
For example we used to re-enable 3DES.

Python now defaults to OpenSSL DEFAULT cipher suite selection and black
lists all unwanted ciphers. Downstream vendors can override the default
cipher list with --with-ssl-default-suites.

Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 46 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/ssl.py b/Lib/ssl.py
index 5f972e1d3d..b6161d0f17 100644
--- a/Lib/ssl.py
+++ b/Lib/ssl.py
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ except ImportError:
 
 
 from _ssl import HAS_SNI, HAS_ECDH, HAS_NPN, HAS_ALPN, HAS_TLSv1_3
+from _ssl import _DEFAULT_CIPHERS
 from _ssl import _OPENSSL_API_VERSION
 
 
@@ -174,48 +175,7 @@ else:
 HAS_NEVER_CHECK_COMMON_NAME = hasattr(_ssl, 'HOSTFLAG_NEVER_CHECK_SUBJECT')
 
 
-# Disable weak or insecure ciphers by default
-# (OpenSSL's default setting is 'DEFAULT:!aNULL:!eNULL')
-# Enable a better set of ciphers by default
-# This list has been explicitly chosen to:
-#   * TLS 1.3 ChaCha20 and AES-GCM cipher suites
-#   * Prefer cipher suites that offer perfect forward secrecy (DHE/ECDHE)
-#   * Prefer ECDHE over DHE for better performance
-#   * Prefer AEAD over CBC for better performance and security
-#   * Prefer AES-GCM over ChaCha20 because most platforms have AES-NI
-#     (ChaCha20 needs OpenSSL 1.1.0 or patched 1.0.2)
-#   * Prefer any AES-GCM and ChaCha20 over any AES-CBC for better
-#     performance and security
-#   * Then Use HIGH cipher suites as a fallback
-#   * Disable NULL authentication, NULL encryption, 3DES and MD5 MACs
-#     for security reasons
-_DEFAULT_CIPHERS = (
-    'TLS13-AES-256-GCM-SHA384:TLS13-CHACHA20-POLY1305-SHA256:'
-    'TLS13-AES-128-GCM-SHA256:'
-    'ECDH+AESGCM:ECDH+CHACHA20:DH+AESGCM:DH+CHACHA20:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:'
-    'ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:ECDH+HIGH:DH+HIGH:RSA+AESGCM:RSA+AES:RSA+HIGH:'
-    '!aNULL:!eNULL:!MD5:!3DES'
-    )
-
-# Restricted and more secure ciphers for the server side
-# This list has been explicitly chosen to:
-#   * TLS 1.3 ChaCha20 and AES-GCM cipher suites
-#   * Prefer cipher suites that offer perfect forward secrecy (DHE/ECDHE)
-#   * Prefer ECDHE over DHE for better performance
-#   * Prefer AEAD over CBC for better performance and security
-#   * Prefer AES-GCM over ChaCha20 because most platforms have AES-NI
-#   * Prefer any AES-GCM and ChaCha20 over any AES-CBC for better
-#     performance and security
-#   * Then Use HIGH cipher suites as a fallback
-#   * Disable NULL authentication, NULL encryption, MD5 MACs, DSS, RC4, and
-#     3DES for security reasons
-_RESTRICTED_SERVER_CIPHERS = (
-    'TLS13-AES-256-GCM-SHA384:TLS13-CHACHA20-POLY1305-SHA256:'
-    'TLS13-AES-128-GCM-SHA256:'
-    'ECDH+AESGCM:ECDH+CHACHA20:DH+AESGCM:DH+CHACHA20:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:'
-    'ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:ECDH+HIGH:DH+HIGH:RSA+AESGCM:RSA+AES:RSA+HIGH:'
-    '!aNULL:!eNULL:!MD5:!DSS:!RC4:!3DES'
-)
+_RESTRICTED_SERVER_CIPHERS = _DEFAULT_CIPHERS
 
 CertificateError = SSLCertVerificationError
 
@@ -393,8 +353,6 @@ class SSLContext(_SSLContext):
 
     def __new__(cls, protocol=PROTOCOL_TLS, *args, **kwargs):
         self = _SSLContext.__new__(cls, protocol)
-        if protocol != _SSLv2_IF_EXISTS:
-            self.set_ciphers(_DEFAULT_CIPHERS)
         return self
 
     def __init__(self, protocol=PROTOCOL_TLS):
@@ -530,8 +488,6 @@ def create_default_context(purpose=Purpose.SERVER_AUTH, *, cafile=None,
         # verify certs and host name in client mode
         context.verify_mode = CERT_REQUIRED
         context.check_hostname = True
-    elif purpose == Purpose.CLIENT_AUTH:
-        context.set_ciphers(_RESTRICTED_SERVER_CIPHERS)
 
     if cafile or capath or cadata:
         context.load_verify_locations(cafile, capath, cadata)