On Oct 19, 2014 9:18 PM, "Tom Lane" <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes:
> > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> And in the end, if we set values like this from PG --- whether
> >> hard-wired or via a GUC --- the SSL library people will have exactly
> >> the same perspective with regards to *our* values.  And not without
> >> reason; we were forcing very obsolete settings up till recently,
> >> because nobody had looked at the issue for a decade.  I see no reason
> >> to expect that that history won't repeat itself.
>
> > The best part would be if we could just leave it up to the SSL
> > library, but at least the openssl one doesn't have an API that lets us
> > do that, right? We *have* to pick something...
>
> As far as protocol version goes, I think our existing coding basically
> says "prefer newest available version, but at least TLS 1.0".  I think
> that's probably a reasonable approach.
>

Yes, it does that. Though it only does it on 9.4,but with the facts we know
now, what 9.4+ does is perfectly safe.

/Magnus

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