On 02/22/2017 12:28 AM, Fraser Tweedale wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 05:23:07PM +0100, Standa Laznicka wrote: >> On 02/21/2017 04:24 PM, Tomas Krizek wrote: >>> On 02/21/2017 03:23 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote: >>>> Standa Laznicka wrote: >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> Since we're trying to make FreeIPA work in FIPS we got to the point >>>>> where we need to do something with MD5 fingerprints in the cert plugin. >>>>> Eventually we came to a realization that it'd be best to get rid of them >>>>> as a whole. These are counted by the framework and are not stored >>>>> anywhere. Note that alongside with these fingerprints SHA1 fingerprints >>>>> are also counted and those are there to stay. >>>>> >>>>> The question for this ML is, then - is it OK to remove these or would >>>>> you rather have them replaced with SHA-256 alongside the SHA-1? MD5 is a >>>>> grandpa and I think it should go. >>>> I based the values displayed on what certutil displayed at the time (7 >>>> years ago). I don't know that anyone uses these fingerprints. The >>>> OpenSSL equivalent doesn't include them by default. >>>> >>>> You may be able to deprecate fingerprints altogether. >>>> >>>> rob >>> I think it's useful to display the certificate's fingerprint. I'm in >>> favor of removing md5 and adding sha256 instead. >>> >> Rob, thank you for sharing the information of where the cert fingerprints >> are originated! `certutil` shipped with nss-3.27.0-1.3 currently displays >> SHA-256 and SHA1 fingerprints for certificates so I propose going that way >> too. >> > IMO we should remove MD5 and SHA-1, and add SHA-256. But we should > also make no API stability guarantee w.r.t. the fingerprint > attributes, i.e. to allow us to move to newer digests in future (and > remove broken/no-longer-secure ones). We should advise that if a > customer has a hard requirement on a particular digest that they > should compute it themselves from the certificate. > > Cheers, > Fraser What is the motivation to remove SHA-1? Are there any attacks besides theoretical ones on SHA-1?
Do other libraries already deprecate SHA-1? -- Tomas Krizek
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