Re: SSL cleanups/hostname verification

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SSL cleanups/hostname verification
Date: 2008-10-20 20:49:58
Message-ID: 48FCEEF6.8000502@hagander.net
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Robert Haas wrote:
>>> How can you make that the default? Won't it immediately break every
>>> installation without certificates?
>> *all* SSL installations have certificate on the server side. You cannot
>> run without it.
>
> s/without certificates/with self-signed certificates/
>
> which I would guess to be a common configuration

Self-signed still work. In a self-signed scenario, the server
certificate *is* the CA certificate.

//Magnus

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