Re: Password identifiers, protocol aging and SCRAM protocol

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
>> People have, in the past, expressed concerns about linking in
>> pgcrypto.  Apparently, in some countries, it's a legal problem.
>
> Do you have any references? I don't see that as a problem.

I don't have a link to previous discussion handy, but I definitely
recall that it's been discussed.  I don't think that would mean that
libpgcrypto couldn't depend on libpgcommon, but the reverse direction
would make libpgcrypto essentially mandatory which I don't think is a
direction we want to go for both technical and legal reasons.

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