Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend

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От Robert Haas
Тема Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend
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Msg-id CA+Tgmoa065y_UnXeff4AjL7H0tqzs4fw2Z5LSjvgAMvb8OxVHA@mail.gmail.com
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Ответ на Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend  (Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>)
Ответы Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend  (Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>)
Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend  (Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>)
Re: Support for NSS as a libpq TLS backend  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 9:08 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> > Kinda makes me question the wisdom of starting to depend on NSS. When openssl
> > docs are vastly outshining a library's, that library really should start to
> > ask itself some hard questions.

Yeah, OpenSSL is very poor, so being worse is not good.

> Sadly, there is that.  While this is not a new problem, Mozilla has been making
> some very weird decisions around NSS governance as of late.  Another data point
> is the below thread from libcurl:
>
>     https://curl.se/mail/lib-2022-01/0120.html

I would really, really like to have an alternative to OpenSSL for PG.
I don't know if this is the right thing, though. If other people are
dropping support for it, that's a pretty bad sign IMHO. Later in the
thread it says OpenLDAP have dropped support for it already as well.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com



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