Re: Fwd: [PATCHES] Preliminary GSSAPI Patches

>> Short answer:
>> Existing Kerberos libs with GSSAPI may have the same issues; I don't know.  
>> What I was speaking in favor of was having several encryption mechanisms 
>> available so that at least one of them would be available on the user's 
>> system at installation time.  For that matter, I think we should support 
>> Gnu-TLS if someone offers us a patch.
> 
> IIRC we had a gnutls patch offered, but rejected.

That is correct. THere is a very long thread on it here:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-12/msg01213.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-05/msg00040.php

> 
> 
>> Also, last I checked OpenSSL didn't ship with Windows and Kerberos 
>> encryption did.
> 
> How long ago did you check? I've been using OpenSSL on windows for many
> years. Actually, it was supported just fine on Windows back when it was
> added to PostgreSQL *at least*.
> 
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