Thread: encrypted pk8 keys work with libpg connection but not in postgres_fdw

Hello,
I am using mtls ssl encryption with postgres.  It works and even accepts an encrypted pk8 file.  I found two things that perhaps will help your team out.

  1. The pk8 file must use this flag on the openssl pkcs8 command to generate the pk8 file -v1 pbeWithSHA1And3-KeyTripleDES-CBC and the PgJDBC docs are wrong about this and state to use -v1 PBE-MD5-DES which doesn't work.  I think the docs just weren't updated when the encryption was updated at some point in the past.
  2. When I use postgres_fdw to make the same JDBC connection it only works if I use an unencrypted pk8 file to hold the sslkey.

I am using postgres in the alpine docker container (16.3-alpine3.20).  Please let me know if and when this changes and I can use encrypted pk8 files to hold keys in postgres_fdw too.

Thank you,
Hunter