On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 07:40:15PM +0100, Alexander Sosedkin wrote: > We've been disabling it in TLS, but its usage is much wider than TLS. > The next agonizing step is to restrict its usage for signatures > on the cryptographic libraries level, with openssl being the scariest one. > > Good news is, RHEL-9 is gonna lead the way > and thus will take a lot of the hits first. > Fedora doesn't have to pioneer it. > Bad news is, Fedora has to follow suit someday anyway, > and this brings me to how does one land such a change. > > --- > > Fedora is a large distribution with short release cycles, and > the only realistic way to weed out its reliance on SHA-1 signatures > from all of its numerous dark corners is to break them. > Make creation and verification fail in default configuration. > But it's unreasonable to just wait for, say, Fedora 37 branch-off > and break it in Rawhide for Fedora 38. > The fallout will just be too big.
If RHEL-9 has lead the way, what are the stats for real world RHEL impact ? What is/was the absolute number of packages and % number of packages from the RHEL distro that saw breakage ? Such figures can give us a better idea of impact on Fedora beyond "too big". Assuming RHEL-9 has dealt with the problems, Fedora should inherit those fixes, which gives us a good base for the most commonly used / important packages in Fedora. If the breakage % from RHEL was single digits, and those were the most important packages to fix from Fedora's POV too, then maybe the fall is not in fact "too big". It might be sufficient to identify a few important remaining packages to validate, and just accept the fallout for the remaining less important packages in Fedora can be fixed after the fact ? IIUC we have a simple workaround of letting someone set the crypto policies on their machine back to LEGACY still Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
