SSL (patch 7)

Started by Bear Gilesabout 24 years ago3 messagespatches
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#1Bear Giles
bgiles@coyotesong.com

SSL patch to periodically renegotiate session key.

In order to reduce the risk of cryptanalysis during extended
sessions (or brief ones involving a substantial amount of data),
this patch renegotiates the session key after 64kib has been
transferred.

Bear

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#2Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Bear Giles (#1)
Re: SSL (patch 7)

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

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Bear Giles wrote:

SSL patch to periodically renegotiate session key.

In order to reduce the risk of cryptanalysis during extended
sessions (or brief ones involving a substantial amount of data),
this patch renegotiates the session key after 64kib has been
transferred.

Bear

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#3Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Bear Giles (#1)
Re: SSL (patch 7)

Patch applied. Thanks.

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Bear Giles wrote:

SSL patch to periodically renegotiate session key.

In order to reduce the risk of cryptanalysis during extended
sessions (or brief ones involving a substantial amount of data),
this patch renegotiates the session key after 64kib has been
transferred.

Bear

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