Subject: Re: Update minimum SSL version
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2019 23:58:22 +0100
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On 2019-12-02 16:13, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> On 2019-11-30 04:06, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I think the real question we have to answer is this: are we intent on
>>> making people upgrade ancient openssl installations?
> 
>> The trade-off is that this makes the defaults better for the vast
>> majority of users and gives users of really old systems a nudge that
>> they are no longer in compliance with industry best practices.  You need
>> manual steps to set up SSL anyway, so this doesn't introduce an entirely
>> new kind of requirement for the latter group of users.
> 
> True.  I'm okay with this as long as we adapt the ssl test suite as
> per your other reply.

I have committed this with that change.  The discussion on which OpenSSL 
versions to support and how will continue.

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