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From: John Haxby <john.haxby@oracle.com>
To: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Disable fips-allowed for non-FIPS authenc ciphers
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:23:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5604318D.7090205@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2226648.jSMMvDJZRs@tauon.atsec.com>

On 24/09/15 17:58, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 24. September 2015, 17:02:03 schrieb John Haxby:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
>> >Tests that contain non-FIPS ciphers and hashes cannot themselves be
>> >.fips-allowed because they will necessarily fail.
>> >
>> >Signed-off-by: John Haxby <john.haxby@oracle.com>
> This is a good finding.
> 
> In fact, all authenc() ciphers are not FIPS approved ciphers.
> 
> The flag for that should be removed for all of those.
> 
> After checking in detail, the following FIPS flags should be removed as well:
> 
> - ecb(des)
> 
> - ansi_cprng (at least at the end of this year)

Thanks Stephan.

Updated patch on its way.

jch

      reply	other threads:[~2015-09-24 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-24 16:02 [PATCH 0/1] fips-allowed tests fail with non-FIPS ciphers John Haxby
2015-09-24 16:02 ` [PATCH 1/1] Disable fips-allowed for non-FIPS authenc ciphers John Haxby
2015-09-24 16:58   ` Stephan Mueller
2015-09-24 17:23     ` John Haxby [this message]

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