Recent Fedora releases have disabled export ciphers by default, so don't test that they work. diff -ur M2Crypto/tests/test_ssl.py M2Crypto-0.21.1/tests/test_ssl.py --- M2Crypto/tests/test_ssl.py 2014-01-06 22:35:45.777935677 +0100 +++ M2Crypto-0.21.1/tests/test_ssl.py 2014-01-06 22:43:34.025594902 +0100 @@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ finally: self.stop_server(pid) + @unittest.skip("Export ciphers are prohibited in recent Fedora releases") def test_use_weak_cipher(self): if fips_mode: # Weak ciphers are prohibited return