FIPS patch for OpenSSH on RHEL 4?

Iain Morgan imorgan at nas.nasa.gov
Tue Jun 22 05:13:29 EST 2010


On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 05:01:20 -0500, Shyamal Pandya1 wrote:
> Does the current code have FIPS 140-mode support?
> 
> Thanks,
> Shyamal

No. If you search https://bugzilla.mindrot.org, you will see that there
are currently three open requests regarding FIPS support, bz#1197,
bz#1647, and bz#1701.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openssh-unix-dev-bounces+shyamal_pandya1=symantec.com at mindrot.org
> [mailto:openssh-unix-dev-bounces+shyamal_pandya1=symantec.com at mindrot.or
> g] On Behalf Of Peter Stuge
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 3:02 PM
> To: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
> Subject: Re: FIPS patch for OpenSSH on RHEL 4?
> 
> Shyamal Pandya1 wrote:
> > what would be the latest openssh version to used over RHEL 4.8
> > (kernel 2.6.9), and would that version have a FIPS patch available?
> 
> I believe the current OpenSSH code should work fine on Linux 2.6.9.
> Why don't you try it out?
> 
> If you're looking for a solution that is supported by Red Hat, then
> you'll have to talk to them, obviously.
> 
> 
> //Peter
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