OpenSSH FIPS 140-2 support using OpenSSL FIPS modules?

[security veteran]

Hi Jakub,

I have one question regarding the FIPS patch in
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/openssh.git/tree/openssh-6.7p1-fips.patch
:

I assume somewhere from within the OpenSSH code it should invoke
FIPS_set_mode API, but all I saw was FIPS_mode().
Does FIPS_mode() serve the same purposes as  FIPS_set_mode()?

Also the patch is for OpenSSH 7.0. Is there a patch for OpenSSH 6.6?

Thanks.

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:27 AM, Jakub Jelen <jjelen at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 12/07/2015 09:21 PM, security veteran wrote:
>
>> Thanks Jakub.
>>
>> If I want to build the FIPS supported OpenSSH, do I just need to apply
>> this
>> one single patch
>>
>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/openssh.git/tree/openssh-6.7p1-fips.patch
>>
>> to the vanilla OpenSSH source code?
>>
>> I saw there are few other patches for OpenSSH version 6.7p1 under the same
>> folder http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/openssh.git/tree/.
>> Do I need these other patches?
>>
> It should be enough to add that one, directly related to FIPS. There were
> other unused patches, which I cleaned up now.
>
> --
> Jakub Jelen
> Associate Software Engineer
> Security Technologies
> Red Hat
>
>