Re: A solution to the SSL customizing problem

From: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Ulrich Meis <kenobi(at)halifax(dot)rwth-aachen(dot)de>, pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: A solution to the SSL customizing problem
Date: 2004-10-11 19:53:34
Message-ID: Pine.BSO.4.56.0410111451040.19235@leary.csoft.net
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On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> Ulrich Meis <kenobi(at)halifax(dot)rwth-aachen(dot)de> writes:
> > I propose a different solution.
>
> One small question --- have you checked that this behaves reasonably
> with both a CVS-tip postmaster and prior releases? CVS tip does do
> certificate presentation and checking, whereas that stuff was
> mistakenly disabled in 7.4. (I think all the relevant changes are
> present in 8.0beta3, but not earlier.)
>

The problem he's talking about is Java's default verification of the
server certificate by the client, not presentation of a client certificate
to be checked by the server. Currently the JDBC driver does not handle
client certificates at all.

Kris Jurka

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