Re: OpenSSL 3.0.0 compatibility - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: OpenSSL 3.0.0 compatibility
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Msg-id 1e125686-4c71-422f-8ab8-15298473e42d@2ndQuadrant.com
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In response to OpenSSL 3.0.0 compatibility  (Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>)
Responses Re: OpenSSL 3.0.0 compatibility
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On 5/28/20 6:16 PM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>
> OpenSSL also deprecates DES keys in 3.0.0, which cause our password callback
> tests to fail with the cryptic error "fetch failed", as the test suite keys are
> encrypted with DES.  0002 fixes this by changing to AES256 (randomly chosen
> among the ciphers supported in 1.0.1+ and likely to be around), and could be
> applied already today as there is nothing 3.0.0 specific about it.
>

+1 for applying this forthwith. The key in my recent commit 896fcdb230
is encrypted with AES256.


cheers


andrew


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