Re: [PATCH] Add `verify-system` sslmode to use system CA pool for server cert

On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 10:55 AM Jacob Champion <jchampion@timescale.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 10:03 AM Jacob Champion <jchampion@timescale.com> wrote:
> > I'm not familiar with "unregistered scheme" in this context and will
> > need to dig in.
>
> Unfortunately I can't reproduce with 3.0.0 on Ubuntu :(

Sorry, when rereading my own emails I suspect they didn't make much
sense to readers. The failure I'm talking about is in cfbot [1], on the
Monterey/Meson build, which is using OpenSSL 3.0.0. I unfortunately
cannot reproduce this on my own Ubuntu machine.

There is an additional test failure with LibreSSL, which doesn't appear
to honor the SSL_CERT_FILE environment variable. This isn't a problem in
production -- if you're using LibreSSL, you'd presumably understand that
you can't use that envvar -- but it makes testing difficult, because I
don't yet know a way to tell LibreSSL to use a different set of roots
for the duration of a test. Has anyone dealt with this before?

> If there are no valuable use cases for weaker checks, then we could go
> even further than my 0002 and just reject any weaker sslmodes
> outright. That'd be nice.

I plan to take this approach in a future v3, with the opinion that it'd
be better for this feature to start life as strict as possible.

--Jacob

[1] https://cirrus-ci.com/task/6176610722775040