[openstack-dev] [Glance][Security] Secure Hash Algorithm Spec

Adam Heczko aheczko at mirantis.com
Fri Sep 29 10:30:45 UTC 2017


Thanks Scott, makes sense.

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Luke Hinds <lhinds at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 8:38 PM, McClymont Jr, Scott <scott.mcclymont@
> verizonwireless.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey All,
>>
>> I've got a spec up for a change I want to implement in Glance for Queens
>> to enhance the current checksum (md5) functionality with a stronger hash
>> algorithm. I'm going to do this in such a way that it is easily altered in
>> the future for new algorithms as they are released.  I'd appreciate it if
>> someone on the security team could look it over and comment. Thanks.
>>
>> Review: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/507568/
>>
>>
> +1 , thanks for undertaking this work. Strong support from the security
> projects side.
>
> Would be good to see all projects move on from MD5 use now, its been known
> to be insecure for sometime and clashes with FIPS-142 compliance.
>
>
>
>> --
>> Scott McClymont
>> Sr. Software Engineer
>> Verizon Cloud Platform
>>
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Adam Heczko
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