Re: [PATCH] Automatic client certificate selection support for libpq v1

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Seth Robertson <in-pgsql-hackers(at)baka(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Automatic client certificate selection support for libpq v1
Date: 2009-05-11 17:00:58
Message-ID: 4A0859CA.8080802@hagander.net
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Monday 11 May 2009 11:02:17 Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Another thought: if we were to make ourselves support multiple SSL
>> libraries (that has been suggested before - at that point, people wanted
>> GnuTLS), we could also add support for Windows SChannel, which I'm sure
>> some win32 people would certainly prefer - much easier to do SSL
>> deployments within an existing MS infrastructure...
>>
>> But no, that certainly wouldn't *reduce* the amount of code...
>
> We'll call that Plan C: Making PostgreSQL the first piece of software in the
> world to support four different crypto libraries. ;-)

I could've sworn curl did :-) But it turns out they do SChannel
*through* OpenSSL. :-) So we can probably live with that ;)

//Magnus

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