Re: pgcrypto & strong ciphers limitation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pgcrypto & strong ciphers limitation
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Msg-id 15614.1185308487@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pgcrypto & strong ciphers limitation  (Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>)
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Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> writes:
> Marko Kreen wrote:
>> So we can revisit the issue when we are ready to drop
>> support for 0.9.6x.

> the last openssl 0.9.6 release was in march 2004 and 0.9.7 is available
> since early 2003 - I don't think dropping support for it in 8.3+ would
> be unreasonable at all ...

Any major rewrite of pgcrypto would be for 8.4 (or later) at this point.
I tend to agree that we could drop 0.9.6x support in that timeframe.
        regards, tom lane


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