Re: Supporting Windows SChannel as OpenSSL replacement - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Supporting Windows SChannel as OpenSSL replacement
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Msg-id 20140609123448.GB3149@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Supporting Windows SChannel as OpenSSL replacement  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On 2014-06-09 13:53:15 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> The main other entries I've been looking at are NSS and gnutls, both of
> which can speak our current file formats. I think the right thing is to
> start with those and thereby make it more pluggable, and only after that
> tackle schannel. But I do think it would be good to have them all.

I think NSS makes a great deal of sense - the advantages of supporting
gnutls are much less clear to me. Maybe it's little enough additional
code that that doesn't matter much, but we imo shouldn't focus on it.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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