Re: libpq compression

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:29:53PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> The fly in the ointment with any of these ideas is that the "configure
> list" is not a list of exact cipher names, as per Magnus' comment that
> the current default includes tests like "!aNULL". I am not sure that
> we know how to evaluate such conditions if we are applying an
> after-the-fact check on the selected cipher. Does OpenSSL expose any
> API for evaluating whether a selected cipher meets such a test?

I'm not sure whether there's an API for it, but you can certainly check
manually with "openssl ciphers -v", for example:

$ openssl ciphers -v 'ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP'
NULL-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=None Mac=SHA1
NULL-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=None Mac=MD5

...etc...

So unless the openssl includes the code twice there must be a way to
extract the list from the library.

Have a nice ay,
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