Re: Recent vendor SSL renegotiation patches break PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Ledford
Subject Re: Recent vendor SSL renegotiation patches break PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 8adf46ea1002030755w28703a2fo3a4330c49e18eed9@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Recent vendor SSL renegotiation patches break PostgreSQL  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Recent vendor SSL renegotiation patches break PostgreSQL
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On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Bad idea: once set, it'll never get unset, thus leaving installations
> with a weakened security posture even after they've installed fixed
> versions of openssl.
>
>                        regards, tom lane

One might argue that the current method is already weakened as it is
measured by the amount of data sent instead of of a length of time. A
session could live a long time under the 512MB threshold depending on
the queries that are being performed.

Michael


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