Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vnc: disable VNC password authentication (security type 2) when in FIPS mode

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 06:26:05PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 05/01/2012 04:20 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> >FIPS 140-2 requires disabling certain ciphers, including DES, which is used
> >by VNC to obscure passwords when they are sent over the network.  The
> >solution for FIPS users is to disable the use of VNC password auth when the
> >host system is operating in FIPS mode.
> 
> Sorry, what?
> 
> Does FIPS really require software to detect when FIPS is enabled and
> actively disable features???  That's absurd.
> 
> Can you point to another software package that does something like this?

All the SSL libraries for a start (NSS, OpenSSL & GNUTLS).  If we were
using one of those for the VNC DES code we would be disabled.

Regards,
Daniel
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