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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Connecting using SSL

Here, we will demonstrate how to enable PostgreSQL to use SSL for the protection of database connections by encrypting all of the data passed over that connection. Using SSL makes it much harder to sniff the database traffic, including usernames, passwords, and other sensitive data. Otherwise, everything that is passed unencrypted between a client and the database can be observed by someone listening to a network somewhere between them. An alternative to using SSL is running the connection over a virtual private network (VPN).

Using SSL makes the data transfer on the encrypted connection a little slower, so you may not want to use it if you are sure that your network is safe. The performance impact can be quite large ...

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