# ssl --- TLS/SSL wrapper for socket objects — TLS 1.3

> The TLS 1.3 protocol behaves slightly differently than previous version of TLS/SSL.

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The TLS 1.3 protocol behaves slightly differently than previous version of TLS/SSL. Some new TLS 1.3 features are not yet available.

TLS 1.3 uses a disjunct set of cipher suites. All AES-GCM and ChaCha20 cipher suites are enabled by default. To restrict which TLS 1.3 ciphers are allowed, the SSLContext.set_ciphersuites method should be called instead of SSLContext.set_ciphers, which only affects ciphers in older TLS versions. The SSLContext.get_ciphers method returns information about ciphers for both TLS 1.3 and earlier versions and the method SSLSocket.cipher returns information about the negotiated cipher for both TLS 1.3 and earlier versions once a connection is established. Session tickets are no longer sent as part of the initial handshake and are handled differently. SSLSocket.session and SSLSession are not compatible with TLS 1.3. Client-side certificates are also no longer verified during the initial handshake. A server can request a certificate at any time. Clients process certificate requests while they send or receive application data from the server. TLS 1.3 features like early data, deferred TLS client cert request, and rekeying are not supported yet.

Class socket.socket Documentation of underlying socket class

SSL/TLS Strong Encryption: An Introduction &lt; Intro from the Apache HTTP Server documentation

RFC 1422: Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part II: Certificate-Based Key Management Steve Kent

RFC 4086: Randomness Requirements for Security Donald E. Eastlake, Jeffrey I. Schiller, Steve Crocker

RFC 5280: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile David Cooper et al.

RFC 5246: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2 Tim Dierks and Eric Rescorla.

RFC 6066: Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions Donald E. Eastlake

IANA TLS: Transport Layer Security (TLS) Parameters &lt; IANA

RFC 7525: Recommendations for Secure Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) IETF

Mozilla's Server Side TLS recommendations &lt; Mozilla

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