From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: settings to control SSL/TLS protocol version
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 21:53:08 +0100
Message-ID: <20181105205307.GA15572@fetter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+TgmoZ600q+Q6UEndhPKGTEkf5d1n918OXHSt3qYTXiK-06iA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1822da87-b862-041a-9fc2-d0310c3da173@2ndquadrant.com>
<CA+TgmoZ600q+Q6UEndhPKGTEkf5d1n918OXHSt3qYTXiK-06iA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 03:01:58PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 4:21 PM Peter Eisentraut
> <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > There have been some requests to be able to select the TLS versions
> > PostgreSQL is using. We currently only hardcode that SSLv2 and SSLv3
> > are disabled, but there is also some interest now in disabling TLSv1.0
> > and TLSv1.1. Also, I've had some issues in some combinations with the
> > new TLSv1.3, so there is perhaps also some use for disabling at the top end.
> >
> > Attached is a patch that implements this. For example:
> >
> > ssl_min_protocol_version = 'TLSv1'
> > ssl_max_protocol_version = 'any'
>
> +1. Maybe it would make sense to spell 'any' as the empty string.
> Intuitively, it makes more sense to me to think about there being no
> maximum than to think about the maximum being anything.
..and now, I'm finally beginning to see the reasoning that led Oracle
to conflate NULL and empty string.
Best,
David.
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