Re: SSL SNI

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Jacob Champion <pchampion(at)vmware(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SSL SNI
Date: 2021-02-25 16:00:25
Message-ID: 9407b344-7342-b2b7-004f-d5250687be42@enterprisedb.com
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On 17.02.21 00:01, Jacob Champion wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-02-15 at 15:09 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> The question I had was whether this should be an optional behavior, or
>> conversely a behavior that can be turned off, or whether it should just
>> be turned on all the time.
> Personally I think there should be a toggle, so that any users for whom
> hostnames are potentially sensitive don't have to make that information
> available on the wire. Opt-in, to avoid having any new information
> disclosure after a version upgrade?

Just as additional data points, it has come to my attention that both
the Go driver ("lib/pq") and the JDBC environment already send SNI
automatically. (In the case of JDBC this is done by the Java system
libraries, not the JDBC driver implementation.)

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