On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 2:05 AM, Lukas Zapletal <[email protected]> wrote:

> Perhaps - can you bit elaborate the GDB
> thing? Is this some kind of hook that use used for FIPS stack to
> report "mistakes" (e.g. signal or exception when you attempt to use
> md5 hash)? I wonder if there is a way to catch these without GDB, for
> example with SystemTap which would allow to catch these also in
> production. Perhaps I misinterpret how this works, I haven't opened
> the PDFs to be honest yet :-)
>

DGB + ruby-specific .gdbinit are used to report ruby callstack when ABRT is
caught. I didn't look for alternatives, seeing that gdb + .gdbinit
combination is pretty trivial to use. I don't really care what we use here
as long as we can get ruby callstack back.


>
> I understand you only investigated core and smart proxy and I assume
> plugin authors will need to do the similar audit themselves. Since we
> are dealing with security, I would like to propose to create kind of
> FIPS CHECKLIST somewhere (perhaps our wikipage) so we could follow it
> and also add own findings/places to look for. In security world it's
> much more useful to have blueprints or checklists, I would not like to
> reinvent the wheel when doing this for discovery or other plugins.
>

Sure, sounds like a good idea. I think it's going to consist of the list of
hash-functions and ciphers not to use and a recommendation to test changes
on a system with FIPS enabled.


>
> Once we settle down on your proposal, please do create tracker
> issue(s) so we can associate our audits or changes to it. If you find
> anything that needs to be done for all plugins, please create tracker
> issue as well.
>

Tracker issue for Foreman already exists:
http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/3511.

-d

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