Re: Handling better supported channel binding types for SSL implementations

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Handling better supported channel binding types for SSL implementations
Date: 2018-01-24 02:27:29
Message-ID: 20180124022729.GC1355@paquier.xyz
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:08:37PM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 1/22/18 02:29, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> However there is as well the argument that this list's contents are not
>> directly used now, and based on what I saw from the MacOS SSL and GnuTLS
>> patches that would not be the case after either.
>
> Right, there is no facility for negotiating the channel binding type, so
> a boolean result should be enough.

I am not completely convinced either that we need to complicate the code
to handle channel binding type negotiation.

> In which case we wouldn't actually need this for GnuTLS yet.

Sure. This depends mainly on how the patch for Mac's Secure Transport
moves forward.
--
Michael

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