From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56070) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Se14P-0006WG-5A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 05:38:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Se14I-0004lq-Cn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 05:37:56 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:3918) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Se14I-0004lT-4P for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 05:37:50 -0400 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q5B9bmjM016582 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 05:37:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:37:44 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Message-ID: <20120611093744.GA8233@redhat.com> References: <20120608213809.24584.63909.stgit@sifl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120608213809.24584.63909.stgit@sifl> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] vnc: disable VNC password authentication (security type 2) when in FIPS mode Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Moore Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 05:38:12PM -0400, 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. > > This patch causes QEMU to emit a message to stderr when the host system is > running in FIPS mode and a VNC password was specified on the commend line. > If the system is not running in FIPS mode, or is running in FIPS mode but > VNC password authentication was not requested, QEMU operates normally. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|