Re: storing an explicit nonce

Ants Aasma <ants@cybertec.at>

From: Ants Aasma <ants@cybertec.at>

To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Sasasu <i@sasa.su>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2021-10-12T20:21:28Z

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Rethink method for assigning OIDs to the template0 and postgres DBs.
- 2cb1272445d2 15.0 landed
pg_upgrade: Preserve database OIDs.
- aa01051418f1 15.0 landed
pg_upgrade: Preserve relfilenodes and tablespace OIDs.
- 9a974cbcba00 15.0 landed
Fix for new Boolean node
- cf925936ecc0 15.0 cited
Improve error handling of HMAC computations
- 5513dc6a304d 15.0 cited
Add macro RelationIsPermanent() to report relation permanence
- 95d77149c535 14.0 landed
Enhance nbtree index tuple deletion.
- d168b666823b 14.0 cited

On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 at 16:14, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

> Well, how do you detect an all-zero page vs a page that encrypted to all
> zeros?
>
Page encrypting to all zeros is for all practical purposes impossible to
hit. Basically an attacker would have to be able to arbitrarily set the
whole contents of the page and they would then achieve that this page gets
ignored.

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Ants Aasma
Senior Database Engineerwww.cybertec-postgresql.com