Re: Negotiating the SCRAM channel binding type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Negotiating the SCRAM channel binding type
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Msg-id CA+TgmoY2q++3qwuqKMYp2GJo3FJ+aWC8NYX3M4NFUJ7ar_bJrQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Negotiating the SCRAM channel binding type  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>)
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On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
> Well, it'd be useless for users, there is no reason to switch off channel
> binding if both the client and server support it. It might not add any
> security you care about, but it won't do any harm either. The
> non-channel-binding codepath is still exercised with non-SSL connections.

Is that true?  What if it makes a connection fail that you wanted to
succeed?  Suppose we discover a bug that makes connections using
channel binding fail on Thursdays.

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Robert Haas
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