Re: So we're in agreement....

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>, Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, "Sverre H(dot) Huseby" <sverrehu(at)online(dot)no>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: So we're in agreement....
Date: 2000-05-08 17:08:32
Message-ID: 2830.957805712@sss.pgh.pa.us
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The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> Being a Canadian based project, like OpenBSD, I do not believe that these
> issues apply ...

If we had to do it that way we could, but I'd just as soon not create
any questions for US mirror sites.

> even FreeBSD, based in California, appears to be getting
> around them now ... something about making you download rsaref seperately,

Yes, I think this is the cleanest current answer: you can connect to a
separately-distributed crypto engine and then it's not your problem.

MD5 (or SHA1 if people like that better) isn't a crypto engine according
to the rules, so including that in our distribution is a non-issue,
but a reversible encryptor might be an issue.

regards, tom lane

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