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Abuhujair Javed
Postgres FD Implementation
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Bruce Momjian
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Comments from Bear Giles:
On a related note, I had mentioned this before but it's a subtle point
and I'm sure that it's slipped everyone's mind...
- if you need to have confidence in the identity of the database
server, e.g., you're storing sensitive information and you absolutely
must prevent any "man in the middle" attacks, use the SSL code I
provided with server-side certs. To many users, the key issue is not
whether the data is encrypted, it's whether the other party can be
trusted to be who they claim to be.
- if you just need confidentiality, but you don't need to verify the
identity of the database server (e.g., because you trust the IP address,
but worry about packet sniffers), SSH tunnels are much easier to set up
and maintain than the embedded SSL code. You can set up the database
server so it doesn't require a certificate (hell, you can hard code a
fallback certificate into the server!), *but that violates the common
practice of SSL-enabled servers.* I cannot overemphasize this - every
other SSL-enabled server requires a certificate, and most provide
installation scripts to create a "snake oil" temporary certificate. I
can't think of any server (apache+mod_ssl, courier-imap, postfix(+tls),
etc.) that uses anonymous servers.
- if you don't need confidentiality, e.g., you're on a trusted network
segment, then use direct access to the server port.
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