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doc: Add acronyms for MITM and SNI
This adds MITM and SNI as acronyms, as the documentation already had them marked up with <acronym>. While on it, make sure to spell man-in-the-middle with dashes consistently, and add acronyms for those new terms where appropriate. Author: Daniel Gustafsson Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CE12DD5C-4BB3-4166-BC9A-39779568734C@yesql.se
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doc/src/sgml/acronyms.sgml

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<term><acronym>MITM</acronym></term>
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<para>
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<ulink
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url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack">
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Man-in-the-middle attack</ulink>
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</para>
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<term><acronym>MSVC</acronym></term>
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<term><acronym>SNI</acronym></term>
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<para>
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<ulink
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url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication">
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Server Name Indication</ulink>,
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<ulink url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6066#section-3">RFC 6066</ulink>
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</para>
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<term><acronym>SPI</acronym></term>
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doc/src/sgml/config.sgml

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Disables anonymous cipher suites that do no authentication. Such
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cipher suites are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks and
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cipher suites are vulnerable to <acronym>MITM</acronym> attacks and
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therefore should not be used.
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doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml

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By default, libpq sets the TLS extension <quote>Server Name
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Indication</quote> (SNI) on SSL-enabled connections. See <ulink
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url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6066#section-3">RFC 6066</ulink>
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for details. By setting this parameter to 0, this is turned off.
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Indication</quote> (<acronym>SNI</acronym>) on SSL-enabled connections.
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By setting this parameter to 0, this is turned off.
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The Server Name Indication can be used by SSL-aware proxies to route
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connections without having to decrypt the SSL stream. (Note that this
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requires a proxy that is aware of the PostgreSQL protocol handshake,
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not just any SSL proxy.) However, SNI makes the destination host name
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appear in cleartext in the network traffic, so it might be undesirable
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in some cases.
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not just any SSL proxy.) However, <acronym>SNI</acronym> makes the
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destination host name appear in cleartext in the network traffic, so
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it might be undesirable in some cases.
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<term>Man in the middle (<acronym>MITM</acronym>)</term>
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<term>Man-in-the-middle (<acronym>MITM</acronym>)</term>
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<para>If a third party can modify the data while passing between the
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client and server, it can pretend to be the server and therefore see and

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