Since the beginning of time—Python time anyway—there has been no checking of SSL/TLS certificates in Python's standard library; neither the urllib nor the urllib2 library performs this checking. As a ...

Python offers library functions for establishing secure HTTPS connections between a client and server, but few users are aware that those routines suffer from what some would deem a fatal flaw. 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 ...