| From: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jacob Champion <pchampion(at)vmware(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, "hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi" <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, "andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com" <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz" <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, "thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com" <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, "sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net" <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend |
| Date: | 2022-01-31 13:24:03 |
| Message-ID: | 27C73840-0403-4888-82EE-593C4EEDDD8E@yesql.se |
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> On 28 Jan 2022, at 15:30, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 9:08 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
>>> Kinda makes me question the wisdom of starting to depend on NSS. When openssl
>>> docs are vastly outshining a library's, that library really should start to
>>> ask itself some hard questions.
>
> Yeah, OpenSSL is very poor, so being worse is not good.
>
>> Sadly, there is that. While this is not a new problem, Mozilla has been making
>> some very weird decisions around NSS governance as of late. Another data point
>> is the below thread from libcurl:
>>
>> https://curl.se/mail/lib-2022-01/0120.html
>
> I would really, really like to have an alternative to OpenSSL for PG.
> I don't know if this is the right thing, though. If other people are
> dropping support for it, that's a pretty bad sign IMHO. Later in the
> thread it says OpenLDAP have dropped support for it already as well.
I'm counting this and Andres' comment as a -1 on the patchset, and given where
we are in the cycle I'm mark it rejected in the CF app shortly unless anyone
objects.
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Daniel Gustafsson https://vmware.com/
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