Re: Where I can find "SSL specification"?

On 05/11/2009, at 0:06, John R Pierce wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Raimon Fernandez <coder@montx.com> writes:
>>
>>> I want to implement SSL in my Frontend implementation with TCP/IP.
>>>
>>
>> You should not be thinking about implementing SSL from scratch ---
>> we don't.
>> Use OpenSSL or another library.

Of course I'm not going to implement SSL from scratch ...

:-)


Where can I find the steps to start an SSL connection with PostgreSQL ?

The config files, certificates, etc. etc. must follow the same rules
for the libpq specification ?


> heck, you have to be a glutton to want to use libssl from openssl...
> there's something like 158 APIs and very little documentation on how
> to properly use them

Doy you mean there's no 'easy' way to start-up an SSL connection from
a TCP/IP socket to postgresql ????


> Why aren't you using libpq ??!?


I'm doing this as an experiment/hobby, the comunication using TCP/IP
is really fast, I'm accessing servers that are far away and the speed
is really great, I have asynchronous comunication, I can show rows as
they are coming, I don't have to wait before all of them are here,
it's multi-plattform, my code works on OS X, OS 9, Windows, Linux, and
I don't know almost nothing about C, linking C libraries, etc. etc.

:-)

thanks!

regards,

raimon