Re: SSL: better default ciphersuite - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: SSL: better default ciphersuite
Date
Msg-id 20131217162613.GC19059@momjian.us
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In response to Re: SSL: better default ciphersuite  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 09:51:30AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 5:10 PM, James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:
> > For reference, see:
> >
> >   https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS
> >
> > for the currently suggested suite for TLS servers.
> ...
> > But for pgsql, I'd leave off the !PSK; pre-shared keys may prove useful
> > for some.  And RC4, perhaps, also should be !ed.
> >
> > And if anyone wants Kerberos tls-authentication, one could add
> > KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA, but that is ssl3-only.
> >
> > Once salsa20-poly1305 lands in openssl, that should be added to the
> > start of the list.
> 
> I'm starting to think we should just leave this well enough alone.  We
> can't seem to find two people with the same idea of what would be
> better than what we have now.  And of course the point of making it a
> setting in the first place is that each person can set it to whatever
> they deem best.

Yes, I am seeing that too.  Can we agree on one that is _better_ than
what we have now, even if we can't agree on a _best_ one?

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