On Feb 3, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
Robert Haas wrote:
blows over?hmm I wonder if we should not go as far as removing the whole renegotiation code, from the field it seems that there are very very few daemons actually doing that kind forced renegotiation.
Robert Haas wrote:
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Chris Campbell wrote:
The flurry of patches that vendors have recently been making to OpenSSL to address
the potential man-in-the-middle attack during SSL renegotiation have disabled SSL
renegotiation altogether in the OpenSSL libraries. Applications that make use of SSL
renegotiation, such as PostgreSQL, start failing.
Should we think about adding a GUC to disable renegotiation until thisThe flurry of patches that vendors have recently been making to OpenSSL to address
the potential man-in-the-middle attack during SSL renegotiation have disabled SSL
renegotiation altogether in the OpenSSL libraries. Applications that make use of SSL
renegotiation, such as PostgreSQL, start failing.
blows over?
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2003-04/msg00075.php
Personally, my production servers have been patched to remove renegotiation completely, and I’m comfortable with the consequences of that for my usage.
- Chris