On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: > scott.marlowe wrote: > > > I wasn't sure how insecure SSL2 was, and whether it allowed you to > > > authenticate without a password or something. > > > > SSL2 seems to get a lot of votes for being broken in ways that cannot be > > fixed because they aren't simple buffer overflows. see: > > > > http://www.lne.com/ericm/papers/ssl_servers.html#1.2 > > > > My suggestion would be to eventually phase out ssl2 in favor of ssl3 or > > tls. And, as we are phasing it out, make it an opt-in thing, where the > > dba has to turn on ssl2 KNOWING he is turning on a flawed protocol. > > That was sort of my point --- if we allow SSLv2 in the server, are we > open to any security problems? Maybe not. I just don't know.
My understanding of SSL/TLS is that the DBA himself has to enable it ... there has to be a server/client key setup, similar to how it gets done with Apache for https connections ... can someone confirm whether this is the case? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
