#28401: Allow hashlib.md5() calls to work with FIPS kernels
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Reporter: Andrew DiPrinzio | Owner: nobody
Type: | Status: new
Cleanup/optimization |
Component: Core (Other) | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: FIPS, md5, | Triage Stage:
python3.9 | Someday/Maybe
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by CrunchyPie):
So since 'usedforsecurity' flag will be available in python 3.9 we might
as well go forward and add up support.
FIPS compliance will be interesting for government organizations or for
everything else that has to deal with sensitive data.
It would also be a good advancement for data security, auditing, and
compliance in general.
Every developer that uses RHEL, Fedora, or CentOS would profit from this
change as well.
We should not swap the algorithms since this would remove backwards
compatibility.
We also don't have to since Python's Hashlibrary allows to pass the flag
with the new method as the second argument.
( By the way, this is my first comment and contribution to Django so let
me know if I do something wrong)
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