Greetings, * Daniel Gustafsson (dan...@yesql.se) wrote: > > On 3 Feb 2022, at 15:07, Peter Eisentraut > > <peter.eisentr...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > > > > On 28.01.22 15:30, Robert Haas wrote: > >> I would really, really like to have an alternative to OpenSSL for PG. > > > > What are the reasons people want that? With OpenSSL 3, the main reasons -- > > license and FIPS support -- have gone away. > > At least it will go away when OpenSSL 3 is FIPS certified, which is yet to > happen (submitted, not processed). > > I see quite a few valid reasons to want an alternative, a few off the top of > my > head include: > > - Using trust stores like Keychain on macOS with Secure Transport. There is > AFAIK something similar on Windows and NSS has it's certificate databases. > Especially on client side libpq it would be quite nice to integrate with where > certificates already are rather than rely on files on disks. > > - Not having to install OpenSSL, Schannel and Secure Transport would make life > easier for packagers. > > - Simply having an alternative. The OpenSSL projects recent venture into > writing transport protocols have made a lot of people worried over their > bandwidth for fixing and supporting core features. > > Just my $0.02, everyones mileage varies on these.
Yeah, agreed on all of these. Thanks, Stephen
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