Re: WIP: plpgsql source code obfuscation - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: WIP: plpgsql source code obfuscation
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Msg-id 200801291519.40196.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: WIP: plpgsql source code obfuscation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Am Montag, 28. Januar 2008 schrieb Tom Lane:
> My recollection is that certain cryptography laws make hooks for crypto
> just as problematic as actual crypto code.  We'd have to tread very
> carefully --- "general purpose" hooks are OK but anything narrowly
> tailored to encryption purposes would be a hazard.

PostgreSQL already has built-in support for SSL and Kerberos, so it is already
infested with enough weaponized code to fail most applicable regulations.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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