Re: Removing SSL renegotiation (Was: Should we back-patch SSL renegotiation fixes?)

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Removing SSL renegotiation (Was: Should we back-patch SSL renegotiation fixes?)
Date: 2015-06-24 16:57:03
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZMVE3GgsC=k4LU_3NX4ttDTo_5U0iopcqyJXM7TuELSg@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
>> I, by now, have come to a different conclusion. I think it's time to
>> entirely drop the renegotiation support.
>
> Well, that's a radical proposal, but I think we should take it seriously.
>
> On balance I think I agree that SSL renegotiation has not been worth the
> trouble. And we definitely aren't testing it adequately, so if we wanted
> to keep it then there's even *more* work that somebody ought to expend.

I'd like to know what factors we are balancing against each other.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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