Re: SSL Compression - doesn't work?

On 05/08/2014 01:22 AM, Krystian Bigaj wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering how, and if SSL compression works correctly.
>
> Here is how I tested it:
> - PostgreSQL 9.3.4 x86 on Windows 7 x64
> - .crt/.key files by openssl, and placed in database cluster folder
> - postgres.exe ran with: --ssl="on" --ssl_cert_file="test.crt"
> --ssl_key_file="test.key"
> - connection made by pgadmin with SSL=prefer, SSL Compression=True
> - when connected I see in properties: Encryptions=SSL encrypted, SSL
> Compression=yes
> - I've dumped TCP transfer and I can tell that data is encrypted
>
> Now when I run query like:
> SELECT lpad('', 1024*1024, 'A')
>
> then I see that there is a TCP transfer of 1,01MB (so 1MB of string
> data, and some pg header/data).
>
> If I turn off SSL Compression data transfer between postgres and pgadmin
> is still 1,01MB (but in properties I see SSL Compression=no)
>
> It looks like SSL compression doesn't work, or am I missing something?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/libpq-connect.html

sslcompression

If set to 1 (default), data sent over SSL connections will be
compressed (this requires OpenSSL version 0.9.8 or later). If set to 0,
compression will be disabled (this requires OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later).
This parameter is ignored if a connection without SSL is made, or if the
version of OpenSSL used does not support it.

So what version of OpenSSL are you using?

>
> Best regards,
> Krystian Bigaj

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