From edfc08652ae35de37c886ba0e9382d72eb2042dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Eisentraut Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 17:13:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Document that ssl_ciphers does not affect TLS 1.3 TLS 1.3 uses a different way of specifying ciphers and a different OpenSSL API. PostgreSQL currently does not support setting those ciphers. For now, just document this. In the future, support for this might be added somehow. Reviewed-by: Jonathan S. Katz Reviewed-by: Tom Lane --- doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml index 081809997ac..d0350dffd3e 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml @@ -1056,11 +1056,14 @@ include_dir 'conf.d' - Specifies a list of SSL cipher suites that are allowed to be - used on secure connections. See - the ciphers manual page - in the OpenSSL package for the syntax of this setting - and a list of supported values. The default value is + Specifies a list of SSL cipher suites that are + allowed to be used by SSL connections. See the + ciphers + manual page in the OpenSSL package for the + syntax of this setting and a list of supported values. Only + connections using TLS version 1.2 and lower are affected. There is + currently no setting that controls the cipher choices used by TLS + version 1.3 connections. The default value is HIGH:MEDIUM:+3DES:!aNULL. It is usually reasonable, unless you have specific security requirements. This parameter can only be set at server start.