| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> |
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jacob Champion <pchampion(at)vmware(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, "hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi" <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, "andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com" <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz" <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, "thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com" <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, "sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net" <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend |
| Date: | 2022-01-28 14:30:02 |
| Message-ID: | CA+Tgmoa065y_UnXeff4AjL7H0tqzs4fw2Z5LSjvgAMvb8OxVHA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 9:08 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
> > Kinda makes me question the wisdom of starting to depend on NSS. When openssl
> > docs are vastly outshining a library's, that library really should start to
> > ask itself some hard questions.
Yeah, OpenSSL is very poor, so being worse is not good.
> Sadly, there is that. While this is not a new problem, Mozilla has been making
> some very weird decisions around NSS governance as of late. Another data point
> is the below thread from libcurl:
>
> https://curl.se/mail/lib-2022-01/0120.html
I would really, really like to have an alternative to OpenSSL for PG.
I don't know if this is the right thing, though. If other people are
dropping support for it, that's a pretty bad sign IMHO. Later in the
thread it says OpenLDAP have dropped support for it already as well.
--
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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