Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend

From: Jacob Champion <pchampion(at)vmware(dot)com>
To: "daniel(at)yesql(dot)se" <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, "andres(at)anarazel(dot)de" <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
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Subject: Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend
Date: 2022-01-27 00:51:59
Message-ID: 80791713766697b7d121baf418940365b2b06b1b.camel@vmware.com
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On Wed, 2022-01-26 at 15:59 -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > Do we have a testcase for embedded NULLs in common names?
> >
> > We don't, neither for OpenSSL or NSS. AFAICR Jacob spent days trying to get a
> > certificate generation to include an embedded NULL byte but in the end gave up.
> > We would have to write our own tools for generating certificates to add that
> > (which may or may not be a bad idea, but it hasn't been done).
>
> Hah, that's interesting.

Yeah, OpenSSL just refused to do it, with any method I could find at
least. My personal test suite is using pyca/cryptography and psycopg2
to cover that case.

--Jacob

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