Re: SSL over Unix-domain sockets

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I found an old patch on my disk to enable SSL over Unix-domain sockets.
>
> Remember, about a year ago it was discussed that there might also be
> man-in-the-middle or fake-server attacks using Unix-domain sockets,
> because usually anyone can start a server in /tmp. After an extensive
> discussion (mainly about moving the socket out of /tmp by default;
> please don't start that again), it was determined that using SSL server
> verification would be the proper solution and it fact works without
> problems. Except that the start-up overhead was increased significantly
> (because of the initial key exchange and session key setup etc.).
>
> Back then we didn't really have a good solution, but I figured since 8.4
> rearranges the SSL connection parameters anyway, we could stick that in
> there.
>
> I imagine for example, we could invent an additional sslmode of the sort
> prefer-but-not-if-local-socket, which could be the default.
>
> The other question is whether sslverify=cn makes sense, but that may be
> up to the user to find out.

I thought the logical solution to this was to place the socket in a
secure directory and not bother with SSL at all.

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