Re: [HACKERS] pgcrypto & strong ciphers limitation

2007-09-26 Thread Zdenek Kotala
Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Just confirming, this should be applied to 8.3, right? I think marko is working on an updated patch for this: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00386.php without that the backend will coredump if ones uses string ciphers

Re: [HACKERS] pgcrypto & strong ciphers limitation

2007-09-26 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Bruce Momjian wrote: Just confirming, this should be applied to 8.3, right? I think marko is working on an updated patch for this: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00386.php without that the backend will coredump if ones uses string ciphers with pgcrypto on a default s

Re: [HACKERS] pgcrypto & strong ciphers limitation

2007-09-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Just confirming, this should be applied to 8.3, right? --- Zdenek Kotala wrote: > Stefan reported me that prcrypto regression test fails on solaris 10 > with openssl support. I investigated this problem and the result is th

Re: [HACKERS] pgcrypto & strong ciphers limitation

2007-07-24 Thread Tom Lane
Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marko Kreen wrote: >> So we can revisit the issue when we are ready to drop >> support for 0.9.6x. > the last openssl 0.9.6 release was in march 2004 and 0.9.7 is available > since early 2003 - I don't think dropping support for it in 8.3+ would >

Re: [HACKERS] pgcrypto & strong ciphers limitation

2007-07-24 Thread Marko Kreen
On 7/24/07, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marko Kreen wrote: > So we can revisit the issue when we are ready to drop > support for 0.9.6x. the last openssl 0.9.6 release was in march 2004 and 0.9.7 is available since early 2003 - I don't think dropping support for it in 8.3+ wo

Re: [HACKERS] pgcrypto & strong ciphers limitation

2007-07-24 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Marko Kreen wrote: > On 7/24/07, Zdenek Kotala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Marko Kreen wrote: >> > NAK. The fix is broken because it uses EVP interface. EVP is not >> > a general-purpose interface because not all valid keys for cipher >> > pass thru it. Only key-lengths used in SSL will work..

Re: [HACKERS] pgcrypto & strong ciphers limitation

2007-07-24 Thread Marko Kreen
On 7/24/07, Zdenek Kotala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marko Kreen wrote: > NAK. The fix is broken because it uses EVP interface. EVP is not > a general-purpose interface because not all valid keys for cipher > pass thru it. Only key-lengths used in SSL will work... I'm not openssl expert, but

Re: [HACKERS] pgcrypto & strong ciphers limitation

2007-07-24 Thread Zdenek Kotala
Marko Kreen wrote: On 7/24/07, Zdenek Kotala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However, on default installation (which is commonly used) it is a problem. Regression test cannot be fixed because it tests strong ciphers, but there two very strange issue: 1) First issue is blowfish cipher. Because pg

Re: [HACKERS] pgcrypto & strong ciphers limitation

2007-07-24 Thread Marko Kreen
On 7/24/07, Zdenek Kotala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stefan reported me that prcrypto regression test fails on solaris 10 with openssl support. I investigated this problem and the result is that Solaris 10 delivers only support for short keys up to 128. Strong crypto (SUNWcry and SUNWcryr package