Re: Support for hardware tokens for server/replication private key

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:31 AM, mdaswani <md(at)quintessencelabs(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Postgres allows client-side SSL requests to use secret keys on hardware
> tokens via OpenSSL engine support. Is there an equivalent way to store the
> server key on a hardware token.
>
> Similarly, is it possible to specify private keys on a hardware token for
> replication connections? Does the sslkey parameter of the primary_conninfo
> string in the recovery.conf file accept an OpenSSL Engine token key?
>

While I haven't tested it and haven't heard of anybody else who has, it
should work. From a libpq perspective ,the replication standby is "just
another client", so any parameters that work for libpq should work there.

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