Re: pgcrypto 3des failure, OpenSSL 0.9.8, Solaris 9/sparc

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Marko Kreen <marko(at)l-t(dot)ee>
Cc: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgcrypto 3des failure, OpenSSL 0.9.8, Solaris 9/sparc
Date: 2005-07-05 18:18:00
Message-ID: 24971.1120587480@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Marko Kreen <marko(at)l-t(dot)ee> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 08:40:08AM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote:
>> On my Solaris 9/sparc box with OpenSSL 0.9.8-beta6, the pgcrypto
>> regression tests fail the 3des test. I haven't checked against
>> older versions of OpenSSL; I'll do so when I get a chance.

> It is a bug in pgcrypto. I can only excuse it with my strong antipathy
> towards 3des.

Patch applied.

Now that I look, the reason the buildfarm failed to find this is of
course that the pgcrypto Makefile is configured to never build or test
this code. Would it be reasonable to fix the makefile to follow the
toplevel --with-openssl choice?

regards, tom lane

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