On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 9:08 PM, David CARLIER <devne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Motivation : > - Using fail-safe, file descriptor free solution on *BSD and Darwin system > - Somehow avoiding at the moment FreeBSD as it still uses RC4 (seemingly > updated to Chacha20 for FreeBSD 12.0 and eventually backported later on). > - For implementation based on Chacha* it is known to be enough fast for the > purpose. > - make check passes.
This looks like a good idea to me at quick glance. Please make sure to register it in the next commit fest if yo uwould like to get feedback about this feature: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/16/ -- Michael