SSL patch updated & pl/perl slated for 6.4

Where are we this this in relation to 6.4?

okay -- I've seriously updated the SSL patch (practically rewritten)
and we're even using it here @ work, and it works great. If you used
it before, be sure to read the info page as the behavior has changed
drastically.

it is two patches now, one to funnel all be/fe communication through
my functions pq_read/write and one to add SSL on top of that. i'm not
going to bother releasing the comm patch as I'll have to rewrite it
for the snapshot version of pgsql.

I plan on including a beta version pl/perl with the 6.4 (can beta
software exist in contrib?) for those who are wondering. I'm short on
time, but I am dedicated to this project.

that's about it -- check out the SSL stuff if you like, at the
following spacetime coordinate and listen to me beg for a job:

http://www.chicken.org/pgsql/ssl/

btw -- thanks for the link on postgresql.org

also, does anyone know if i'm illegally distributing encryption
software? not that I give a rats ass, but I am curious.

i'll announce SSL patch to the general list soon if that is
appropriate..

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It has a few semi-serious bugs. One is that it can't initdb (xpg_user
no such file or directory) and another is that copy from doesn't seem
to work all the time for more than a few lines. I haven't been able
to track down the xpg_user. I could modify the patch to use
--with-ssl in configure -- i've also updated the patch so that the
unix socket doesn't use SSL and added support for an SSL port and a
non-SSL port.

I'd like to work on certificate verification, but i'm not sure exactly
how that might work yet.

On Fri, 21 August 1998, at 22:33:16, Bruce Momjian wrote: