Re: Removing SSL renegotiation (Was: Should we back-patch SSL renegotiation fixes?)

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Removing SSL renegotiation (Was: Should we back-patch SSL renegotiation fixes?)
Date: 2015-06-24 16:34:44
Message-ID: CABUevEyUaiyDy96T9UjxtXe3cqfqsmK24qKBC8JJiFDT8qU8Rg@mail.gmail.com
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On Jun 24, 2015 5:13 PM, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > I, by now, have come to a different conclusion. I think it's time to
> > entirely drop the renegotiation support.
>
> Well, that's a radical proposal, but I think we should take it seriously.
>

Yes.

Just on my phone right now, but wasn't renegotiation also an attack vector
in one of the recent openssl bugs?

/Magnus

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