Re: [PATCH] add ssl_protocols configuration option

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des(at)des(dot)no>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add ssl_protocols configuration option
Date: 2014-10-23 07:30:24
Message-ID: 86ppdjb5v3.fsf@nine.des.no
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des(at)des(dot)no> writes:
> > Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> > > Since you can already specify the cipher list, couldn't you just
> > > add -SSLv3 to the cipher list and be done?
> > I didn't want to change the existing behavior; all I wanted was to
> > give users a way to do so if they wish.
> I think we should just disable SSL3.0 altogether. The only way this
> could cause problems is if people are using PostgreSQL with an OpenSSL
> library from last century. As for client libraries, even Windows XP
> supports TLS1.0.

As far as I'm concerned (i.e. as far as FreeBSD and the University of
Oslo are concerned), I couldn't care less about anything older than
0.9.8, which is what FreeBSD 8 and RHEL5 have, but I don't feel
comfortable making that decision for other people. On the gripping
hand, no currently supported version of libpq uses anything older than
TLS; 9.0 through 9.3 use TLS 1.0 only while 9.4 uses TLS 1.0 or higher.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des(at)des(dot)no

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