From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Allow tests to pass in OpenSSL FIPS mode |
Date: | 2023-10-06 13:44:40 |
Message-ID: | 389e7bd8-dad2-5430-f571-e5ebdc775d2c@eisentraut.org |
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On 05.10.23 22:04, Tom Lane wrote:
> On the way to testing this, I discovered that we have a usability
> regression with recent OpenSSL releases. The Fedora 35 installation
> I used to use for testing FIPS-mode behavior would produce errors like
> +ERROR: could not compute MD5 hash: disabled for FIPS
> In the shiny new Fedora 38 installation I just set up for the
> same purpose, I'm seeing
> +ERROR: could not compute MD5 hash: unsupported
This makes sense, because the older OpenSSL works basically like
if (FIPS_mode()) {
specific_error();
}
while the new one has all crypto methods in modules, and if you load the
fips module, then some crypto methods just don't exist.
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