Re: OpenSSL 3.0.0 compatibility

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: OpenSSL 3.0.0 compatibility
Date: 2020-05-30 12:34:37
Message-ID: 1e125686-4c71-422f-8ab8-15298473e42d@2ndQuadrant.com
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On 5/28/20 6:16 PM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>
> OpenSSL also deprecates DES keys in 3.0.0, which cause our password callback
> tests to fail with the cryptic error "fetch failed", as the test suite keys are
> encrypted with DES. 0002 fixes this by changing to AES256 (randomly chosen
> among the ciphers supported in 1.0.1+ and likely to be around), and could be
> applied already today as there is nothing 3.0.0 specific about it.
>

+1 for applying this forthwith. The key in my recent commit 896fcdb230
is encrypted with AES256.

cheers

andrew

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