Re: BUG #1321: SSL error: sslv3 alert handshake failure

"PostgreSQL Bugs List" <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org> writes:
> After installing 8.0.0beta4 (previously tried with beta3,2,etc) on a linux
> system with a working 7.4.x installation I was unable to connect with ssl.
> Tried compiling with OpenSSL 0.9.7d/e. I used certificates created with
> OpenSSL 0.9.7d/e that both worked fine with 7.4.x but apparently not so with
> 8.0.0. Server starts fine, but when I attempt to connect to the server with
> latest pgadmin or psql (8.0.0beta4 both on the pgfoundry binary for windows
> and a compiled version on Mandrake Linux) the error is always the same. The
> error message returned to the client is "SSL error: sslv3 alert handshake
> failure". The log reports: "could not accept SSL connection: 1".

The only SSL changes between beta3 and beta4 were Magnus' changes to
make ssl work on Windows, so I'm assuming this is his fault ...

            regards, tom lane