Re: GnuTLS support

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I think we might be best off just playing it straight and providing
> a config file that contains a section along these lines:
>
> # Parameters for OpenSSL. Leave these commented out if not using OpenSSL.
> #
> #ssl_ciphers = 'HIGH:MEDIUM:+3DES:!aNULL' # allowed SSL ciphers
> #ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = on
> #ssl_ecdh_curve = 'prime256v1'
> #ssl_dh_params_file = ''
> #ssl_cert_file = 'server.crt'
> #ssl_key_file = 'server.key'
> #ssl_ca_file = ''
> #ssl_crl_file = ''
> #
> # Parameters for GnuTLS. Leave these commented out if not using GnuTLS.
> #
> #gnufoo=...
> #gnubar=...
> #
> # Parameters for macOS TLS. ... you get the idea.
>
> As previously noted, it'd be a good idea to rename the existing
> ssl_xxx parameters to openssl_xxx, except maybe ones that we think
> will be universal. (But even if we do think that, it might be
> simpler in the long run to just have three or four totally independent
> sections of the config file, instead of some common and some library-
> specific parameters.)

+1 to all of that.

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