Re: Removing SSL renegotiation (Was: Should we back-patch SSL renegotiation fixes?) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Removing SSL renegotiation (Was: Should we back-patch SSL renegotiation fixes?)
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Msg-id CA+TgmoZMVE3GgsC=k4LU_3NX4ttDTo_5U0iopcqyJXM7TuELSg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Removing SSL renegotiation (Was: Should we back-patch SSL renegotiation fixes?)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Removing SSL renegotiation (Was: Should we back-patch SSL renegotiation fixes?)  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>> I, by now, have come to a different conclusion. I think it's time to
>> entirely drop the renegotiation support.
>
> Well, that's a radical proposal, but I think we should take it seriously.
>
> On balance I think I agree that SSL renegotiation has not been worth the
> trouble.  And we definitely aren't testing it adequately, so if we wanted
> to keep it then there's even *more* work that somebody ought to expend.

I'd like to know what factors we are balancing against each other.

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Robert Haas
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