_ssl.pyd available for Windows.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
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@@ -1219,6 +1219,9 @@
 van~Rossum rewrote parts of it.  This is a good example of the free
 software development process in action.
 
+\item On Windows, the \module{socket} module now ships with Secure 
+Sockets Library (SSL) support.
+
 \item The value of the C \constant{PYTHON_API_VERSION} macro is now exposed
 at the Python level as \code{sys.api_version}.