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On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 7:30 AM Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
>
> Joshua Cornutt <jcornutt at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Doug,
> >
> > I have such a list put together (my various installation documents for
> > getting these clouds working in FIPS mode) but it's hardly ready for
> > public consumption. I planned on releasing each bit as a code change
> > and/or bug ticket and letting the community consume it as it figures
> > some of these things out.
>
> It's likely that the overall migration will go better if we all have the
> full context. So I hope you can find some time to publish some of the
> information you've compiled to help with that.
>
> > I agree that some changes may break backwards compatibility (such as
> > Glance's image checksumming), but one approach I think could ease the
> > transition would be the approach I took for SSH key pair
> > fingerprinting (also MD5-based, as is Glance image checksums) found
> > here - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/615460/ . This allows
> > administrators to choose, hopefully at deployment time, the hashing
> > algorithm with the default of being the existing MD5 algorithm.
>
> That certainly seems like it would provide the most compatibility in the
> short term.
>
> That said, I honestly don't know the best approach for us to take. We're
> going to need people who understand the issues around FIPS and the
> issues around maintaining backwards-compatibility to work together to
> create a recommended approach. Perhaps a few of the folks on this thread
> would be interested in forming a team to work on that?
>
> Doug
>

I'd be interested in that. Good idea

> > Another approach would be to make the projects "FIPS aware" where we
> > choose the hashing algorithm based on the system's FIPS-enforcing
> > state. An example of doing so is what I'm proposing for Django
> > (another FIPS-related patch that was needed for OSP 13) -
> > https://github.com/django/django/pull/10605
> >
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