| From: | David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Julian Markwort <julian(dot)markwort(at)uni-muenster(dot)de>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Valery Popov <v(dot)popov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> |
| Subject: | Re: Password identifiers, protocol aging and SCRAM protocol |
| Date: | 2016-07-21 16:59:44 |
| Message-ID: | 88f35221-2abd-6a31-a75d-28a3dc3a5b30@pgmasters.net |
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On 7/21/16 12:19 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Michael Paquier
> <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> People have, in the past, expressed concerns about linking in
>>> pgcrypto. Apparently, in some countries, it's a legal problem.
>>
>> Do you have any references? I don't see that as a problem.
>
> I don't have a link to previous discussion handy, but I definitely
> recall that it's been discussed. I don't think that would mean that
> libpgcrypto couldn't depend on libpgcommon, but the reverse direction
> would make libpgcrypto essentially mandatory which I don't think is a
> direction we want to go for both technical and legal reasons.
I searched a few different ways and finally came up with this post from Tom:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/11392.1389991321@sss.pgh.pa.us
It's the only thing I could find, but thought it might jog something
loose for somebody else.
I know that export controls have been an issue for crypto in the past
but have no idea what the current state of that is.
--
-David
david(at)pgmasters(dot)net
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