Re: default SSL compression (was: libpq compression)

On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 04:29:35PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:45:54PM +0800, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > Uh. We have the ! notation in our default *now*. What openssl also
> > > supports is the text "DEFAULT", which is currently the equivalent of
> > > "ALL!aNULL!eNULL". The question, which is valid of course, should be
> > > if "DEFAULT" works with all openssl versions.
> > >
> > > It would seem reasonable it does, but I haven't investigated.

The oldest version readily available for download (0.9.1c, 1998) has it.

> > Do we want to change our ssl_ciphers default to 'DEFAULT'? Currently it
> > is 'ALL:!ADH:!LOW:!EXP:!MD5:@STRENGTH'.
> >
> Did we ever get anywhere with this? Is this a change we want to do for 9.3?
> Since nobody seems to have come up with a motivation for not following the
> openssl default, we probably should?

+1 for doing that. I'm not aware of a PostgreSQL-specific selection criterion
for SSL cipher suites.