Re: SSL renegotiation

From: Henry B Hotz <hbhotz(at)oxy(dot)edu>
To: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
Cc: Florian Weimer *EXTERN* <fweimer(at)redhat(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Emil Lenngren <emil(dot)lenngren(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SSL renegotiation
Date: 2015-02-23 17:38:38
Message-ID: C99500F9-169A-482D-940C-35B9572703C7@oxy.edu
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Renegotiation should be a best practice. Trouble is it's been broken (at the protocol level) three times in the last few years so it's a massive hole in practice.

Ideally we should leave the renegotiate in, and only remove it if configure detects a broken version of TLS.

Personal email. hbhotz(at)oxy(dot)edu

> On Feb 23, 2015, at 7:01 AM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> wrote:
>
> I'd say it is best to wait if and how OpenSSL change their API when they
> implement TLS 1.3.

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