Re: [GENERAL] Postgres in FIPS

2011-01-12 Thread M Sabin
Yes, we require SSL connections, because we have multiple clients that access the database external from the server where the database resides. Michael On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Kenneth Buckler wrote: > Something to think about heredoes your database actually require > encryption? Or

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres in FIPS

2011-01-11 Thread Kenneth Buckler
Something to think about heredoes your database actually require encryption? Or is the encryption handled between remote user and application? If your database is shared locally on the same server as your application, then you shouldn't need FIPS encryption since the communication between data

[GENERAL] Postgres in FIPS

2011-01-11 Thread M Sabin
Hello, My organization is in the process of getting a FIPS certification. I was wondering if anyone who has experience with getting their application FIPS certified using postgres. I have read a little bit about this and saw that you need to compile postgres manually using a FIPS capable version