Re: pgsql: Use OpenSSL EVP API for symmetric encryption in pgcrypto.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
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> On 18 October 2016 12:52:14 EEST, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>>On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
>>wrote:
>>> On 10/18/2016 12:28 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)iki(dot)fi> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>> Use OpenSSL EVP API for symmetric encryption in pgcrypto.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> BTW, "narwhal" seems to have a problem with this.
>>>> Not very clear what, maybe an incompatibility with old openssl
>>versions?
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>>> Dave, what version of OpenSSL are 'narwhal' and 'baiji' using? I've
>>tried to
>>> reproduce this on my laptop, by compiling different versions of
>>OpenSSL,
>>> between 0.9.8beta1 and 0.9.8 head, but without success..
>>
>>Insanely old ones, as reflects the age of those machines which haven't
>>been touched in 10 years or so...
>>
>>Baiji: 0.9.8e
>>Narwhal: 0.9.6b
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> Hang on, I removed support for OpenSSL < 0.9.8 a while ago. Narwhal shouldn't even compile with 0.9.6.

Oops, sorry - I found another copy in the Mingw installation that it
must be using (Mingw/Msys was a mess back then). I only have the
header files to go by, but it looks like the very first 0.9.8 release.

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