On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:37:55AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> The set of APIs that we use to the SSL abstraction layer is very
> internal, so it would not be an issue if we add some in stable branches,
> no? My point is that from OpenSSL point of view, TLS 1.3 stuff has been
> added in 1.1.1 which is now in beta 6 stage, so we could consider as
> well all this part once OpenSSL is released. That's compatibility work
> I wanted to work on anyway. Impossible to say down to which versions of
> Postgres things could be applied easily though without a deep
> investigation of the new compatibility breakages that upstream OpenSSL
> has very-likely introduced in upstream.
>
> Still it does not sound completely strange either to me to wait for
> OpenSSL to release as we won't be able to have a full solution designed
> before that.
Actually, I got curious about that part and just compiled Postgres with
OpenSSL 1.1.1 beta 6 that I compiled manually, and channel binding is
generating consistent data for both tls-unique and tls-server-end-point
even if TLS v1.3 is used, while tests in src/test/ssl/ are all able to
pass. So that's less dramatic than what I thought after the melodrama
of upgrading the code to 1.1.0.
The thread where this is discussed is also kind of interesting as the
last email points to having tls-unique deprecated for all the TLS
versions:
https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg18265.html
I am able to find easily drafts of TLS 1.3, but I am not seeing an RFC
associated to it, which would be the base document to rely on I
guess... So that's really hard to make any decision in this area
without the real deal. As far as I can see tls-unique could be
deprecated and replaced, but from OpenSSL point of view it technically
works.
--
Michael
