Commit 400be4ef authored by Bruce Momjian's avatar Bruce Momjian

Document problem with NULL SSL ciphers and man-in-the-middle attacks.

parent f5678e8e
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<chapter Id="runtime">
<title>Operating System Environment</title>
......@@ -1604,7 +1604,10 @@ $ <userinput>kill -INT `head -1 /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid`</userinput
ciphers can be specified in the <productname>OpenSSL</productname>
configuration file, you can specify ciphers specifically for use by
the database server by modifying <xref linkend="guc-ssl-ciphers"> in
<filename>postgresql.conf</>.
<filename>postgresql.conf</>. It is possible to allow authentication
without the overhead of encryption by using <literal>NULL-SHA</> or
<literal>NULL-MD5</> ciphers. However, a man-in-the-middle could read
and pass communications between client and server.
</para>
<para>
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