Re: 7.3.1 stamped

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Nathan Mueller <nmueller(at)cs(dot)wisc(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 7.3.1 stamped
Date: 2002-12-18 19:58:20
Message-ID: 200212181958.gBIJwKX07342@candle.pha.pa.us
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > My question is whether it is safe to be making this change in a minor
> > release? Does it work with 7.3 to 7.3.1 combinations? My other
> > question is, if SSLv2 isn't secure, couldn't a client say they only
> > support SSLv2, and hence break into the server? That was my original
> > hesitancy, that and the fact Bear the SSL guy didn't want it.
>
> Wow, which part of "A TLS/SSL connection established with these methods
> will understand the SSLv2, SSLv3, and TLSv1 protocol" are you finiding
> particularly confusing? As nate explained to you, and the man page
> section I commited states, TLSv1_method *only* supports TLS connections
> ... SSLv23_method supports SSLv2, v3 and TLSv1 ...
>
> As for 'break into the server" ... ummm ... isn't that what pg_hba.conf is
> for? I don't know about servers you run, but I don't let just anyone
> connect to my server, and, in fact, close down the databases themsleves to
> specific users ... if you don't trust the client, why are you giving him
> accss to your data, regardless of the protocol being used to encrypt the
> sessino??

I wasn't sure how insecure SSL2 was, and whether it allowed you to
authenticate without a password or something.

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