From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>,
George Wilson <gcwilson@us.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vnc: disable VNC password authentication (security type 2) when in FIPS mode
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 10:16:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120502091611.GJ13336@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA0710D.9070900@codemonkey.ws>
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 06:26:05PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 05/01/2012 04:20 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> >FIPS 140-2 requires disabling certain ciphers, including DES, which is used
> >by VNC to obscure passwords when they are sent over the network. The
> >solution for FIPS users is to disable the use of VNC password auth when the
> >host system is operating in FIPS mode.
>
> Sorry, what?
>
> Does FIPS really require software to detect when FIPS is enabled and
> actively disable features??? That's absurd.
>
> Can you point to another software package that does something like this?
All the SSL libraries for a start (NSS, OpenSSL & GNUTLS). If we were
using one of those for the VNC DES code we would be disabled.
Regards,
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-02 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-01 21:20 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vnc: disable VNC password authentication (security type 2) when in FIPS mode Paul Moore
2012-05-01 22:54 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-02 10:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-05-02 11:05 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-05-02 15:45 ` Paul Moore
2012-05-01 23:26 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 23:43 ` George Wilson
2012-05-01 23:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-02 0:17 ` George Wilson
2012-05-02 9:29 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-05-02 9:16 ` Daniel P. Berrange [this message]
2012-05-02 9:18 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-05-02 15:50 ` Paul Moore
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