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Re: SSL/TLS instead of SSL in docs

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

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From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Date: 2022-03-25T21:01:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> On 25 Mar 2022, at 20:58, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 8:47 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>> Since the approach taken wasn't to anyones liking, attached is a v4 (partly
>> extracted from the previous patch) which only adds notes that SSL is used
>> interchangeably with TLS in our documentation and configuration.
> 
> I have actually been wondering why we have been insisting on calling
> it SSL when it clearly is not.

SSL has become the de facto term for a network channel encryption regardless of
actual protocol used. Few use TLS, with most SSL/TLS is

> However, if we're not ready/willing to make a bigger change, then doing as you
> have proposed here seems fine to me.

Thanks for review!  Trying out again just now the patch still applies (with
some offsets) and builds.

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Daniel Gustafsson		https://vmware.com/

Commits

  1. doc: Clarify when SSL actually means TLS

  2. doc: Add acronyms for MITM and SNI

  3. doc: Apply markup <productname> to OpenSSL more consistently

  4. Introduce --with-ssl={openssl} as a configure option