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diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index 6d876610..235da672 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -82,6 +82,19 @@ Your ``pip`` and/or ``setuptools`` are outdated. Please upgrade to the latest versions with ``pip install -U pip setuptools`` (or on Windows ``python -m pip install -U pip setuptools``). +Importing cryptography causes a ``RuntimeError`` about OpenSSL 1.0.1 +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The OpenSSL project has dropped support for the 1.0.1 release series. Since it +is no longer receiving security patches from upstream, ``cryptography`` is also +dropping support for it. To fix this issue you should upgrade to a newer +version of OpenSSL (1.0.2 or later). This may require you to upgrade to a newer +operating system. + +For the 2.9 release, you can set the ``CRYPTOGRAPHY_ALLOW_OPENSSL_101`` +environment variable. Please note that this is *temporary* and will be removed +in ``cryptography`` 3.0. + Installing cryptography with OpenSSL 0.9.8 or 1.0.0 fails --------------------------------------------------------- |