Re: pgsql: Use OpenSSL EVP API for symmetric encryption in pgcrypto. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: pgsql: Use OpenSSL EVP API for symmetric encryption in pgcrypto.
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Msg-id 2bab8e97-3c4f-b521-7752-e5a8a55ba118@iki.fi
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In response to Re: pgsql: Use OpenSSL EVP API for symmetric encryption in pgcrypto.  (Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>)
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On 10/18/2016 04:32 PM, Dave Page wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org> writes:
>>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
>>>> On 18 October 2016 12:52:14 EEST, Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org> wrote:
>>>>> Baiji: 0.9.8e
>>>>> Narwhal: 0.9.6b
>>
>>>> Hang on, I removed support for OpenSSL < 0.9.8 a while ago. Narwhal shouldn't even compile with 0.9.6.
>>
>>> Oops, sorry - I found another copy in the Mingw installation that it
>>> must be using (Mingw/Msys was a mess back then). I only have the
>>> header files to go by, but it looks like the very first 0.9.8 release.
>>
>> Is it possible that there's a header-vs-executable version mismatch
>> contributing to the problem here?  (Although you'd think we'd have
>> hit it before now, if so.)
>
> We're not actually calling the openssl binary are we? There's an
> openssl binary only in the Msys installation (the really old version),
> and headers/libraries but no executable in the Mingw installation.

Nope.

Any chance of updating the OpenSSL on that box, to see if it helps? I'd
rather not spend time investigate this further, if it turns out to be a
bug in an ancient version of OpenSSL.

- Heikki



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