Thread: Cryptography - A dummy question

Cryptography - A dummy question

From
Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa
Date:
Hi,

Is there any cryptography in PostgreSQL network connections??? I would
like to know if it is safe to query data like passwords on a PostgreSQL
server, from several clients.

In other words: PostgreSQL network connections are secured agains
sniffers?

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Re: Cryptography - A dummy question

From
"Joe Conway"
Date:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any cryptography in PostgreSQL network connections??? I would
> like to know if it is safe to query data like passwords on a PostgreSQL
> server, from several clients.
>
> In other words: PostgreSQL network connections are secured agains
> sniffers?

See:
http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?ssl-tcp.html
- and/or -
http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?ssh-tunnels.html

HTH,

-- Joe



Re: Cryptography - A dummy question

From
Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa
Date:
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Joe Conway wrote:

> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there any cryptography in PostgreSQL network connections??? I would
> > like to know if it is safe to query data like passwords on a PostgreSQL
> > server, from several clients.
> >
> > In other words: PostgreSQL network connections are secured agains
> > sniffers?

Thanx for the imediate answer.

>
> See:
> http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?ssl-tcp.html
> - and/or -
> http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?ssh-tunnels.html
>

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No. I thought that cryptograhy in pgsql was native.

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