• [Python-announce] PyCA cryptography 42.0.5 released

    From Paul Kehrer@paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com to comp.lang.python.announce on Fri Feb 23 19:16:37 2024
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    PyCA cryptography 42.0.5 has been released to PyPI. cryptography
    includes both high level recipes and low level interfaces to common cryptographic algorithms such as symmetric ciphers, asymmetric
    algorithms, message digests, X509, key derivation functions, and much
    more. We support Python 3.7+, and PyPy3 7.3.10+.

    Changelog (https://cryptography.io/en/latest/changelog/#v42-0-5):
    * Limit the number of name constraint checks that will be performed in
    X.509 path validation to protect against denial of service attacks.
    * Upgrade pyo3 version, which fixes building on PowerPC.

    -Paul Kehrer (reaperhulk)
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