Re: pgcrypto & strong ciphers limitation

From: "Marko Kreen" <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Stefan Kaltenbrunner" <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
Cc: "Zdenek Kotala" <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)sun(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgcrypto & strong ciphers limitation
Date: 2007-07-24 20:04:17
Message-ID: e51f66da0707241304u54c2f7f1v552f33621023068e@mail.gmail.com
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On 7/24/07, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:
> Marko Kreen wrote:
> > So we can revisit the issue when we are ready to drop
> > support for 0.9.6x.
>
> the last openssl 0.9.6 release was in march 2004 and 0.9.7 is available
> since early 2003 - I don't think dropping support for it in 8.3+ would
> be unreasonable at all ...

Now that I think about it, then yes, dropping 0.9.6 from 8.4
onwards should be no problem. Considering the code could need
good cleanup anyway, that may be a good moment for it.

--
marko

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