Re: [PATCH v20] GSSAPI encryption support

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>
Date: 2019-04-04T02:09:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Greetings,

On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 22:02 Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 05:51:06PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > Thanks so much for pushing on it for so long, it’s a great feature to
> have!
>
> Glad to see that the final result is using an API layer in
> be-secure.c and that we have tests.  Now, shouldn't there be some
> documentation in protocol.sgml for the read and write handling of the
> encrypted messages?  Other drivers could need to implement that stuff,
> no?  We have that for SSL, with SSLRequest and such.


Yes, that’s a fair point. I’ll work on adding documentation to
protocol.sgml for the GSSAPI encrypted setup and message passing.

Thanks,

Stephen

>

Commits

  1. GSSAPI encryption support

  2. Fix typo