Re: [JDBC] [HACKERS] Channel binding support for SCRAM-SHA-256

Michael,

* Michael Paquier (michael.paquier@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Michael Paquier
> > <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> It seems to me that any testing in this area won't fly high as long as
> >> there is no way to enforce the list of TLS implementations that a
> >> server allows. There have been discussions about being able to control
> >> that after the OpenSSL vulnerabilities that were protocol-specific and
> >> there were even patches adding GUCs for this purpose. At the end,
> >> everything has been rejected as Postgres enforces the use of the
> >> newest one when doing the SSL handshake.
> >
> > TLS implementations, or TLS versions?  What does the TLS version have
> > to do with this issue?
>
> I really mean *version* here. Unlike OpenSSL, the Windows TLS
> implementation does not offer an API to choose the latest TLS version
> available:
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa380513(v=vs.85).aspx
> It is up to the server and the client to negotiate that, so it seems
> to me that we want some control in this area, which would be important
> for testing as well because the TLS finish message differs a bit
> across versions, in length mainly. On top of that per the aggressive
> updates that Windows does from time to time they may as well forcibly
> expose users to a broken TLS implementation...
> MacOS has something similar to OpenSSL, with
> SSLGetProtocolVersionMax(), which is nice.

We mainly need to know what version was used, right..?  Isn't that
available?

Thanks!

Stephen