Hi,

On 5 March 2015 at 19:58, Christoph Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That's an excellent thought..  I wasn't aware of this.  Unfortunately,
>> I'm not sure that we could make it the default in Debian as it requires
>> server-side certificates be configured and used properly (correct?) but
>> I don't see a reason to not support it and encourage its use.

TLS-SRP verifies both client and server.

> We have the autogenerated snakeoil certificates that we use anyway.
> If these aren't good (why?), we could put more automation in there and
> generate proper certificates. That's probably more of a
> distribution-wide topic and not just PostgreSQL, though.

The snake-oil certificate could certainly be improved with a more
useful framework for creating and submitting CSRs and monitoring for
renewal/expiry.  Certutil(?) from FreeIPA does this.

Regards,
  Michael

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