From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Andreas F??rber <afaerber@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>,
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 12:28:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120502102802.GA28788@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA0699D.6090302@suse.de>
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 12:54:21AM +0200, Andreas F??rber wrote:
> > + fds = fopen("/proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled", "r");
>
> How standardized is this? Should we limit this to __linux__ or something?
It's completelt non-standard and doesn't even exist in mainline Linux.
All the FIPS bullshit is a RHEL-private feature, which is where this patch
should stay as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-02 10:28 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 [this message]
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
2012-05-02 9:18 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-05-02 15:50 ` Paul Moore
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