On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 12:49:35PM -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Jeffrey van Pelt via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Currently I'm setting up a FreeIPA instance on EL8 with the
> > crypto-policy set to FUTURE.
> > 
> > When running the ipa-server-install program, it errors out when setting
> > up the PKI infrastructure.
> > 
> > Below is the command I ran:
> > 
> > ```
> > ipa-server-install --pki-config-override /root/freeipa_pki_override.cfg
> > --setup-adtrust -p Banana123! -a Banana123! -r EXAMPLE.COM -U 
> > ```
> > 
> > As this command already shows, I already have some PKI override settings
> > to ensure all created keys are 4096 bits long:
> > 
> > ```
> > [CA]
> > pki_ca_signing_key_size=4096
> > [DEFAULT]
> > pki_admin_key_size=4096
> > pki_audit_signing_key_size=4096
> > pki_sslserver_key_size=4096
> > pki_subsystem_key_size=4096
> > ```
> > 
> > And even despite these settings, the command errors out giving me the
> > message as below:
> > 
> > ```
> > ..truncated..
> >   [22/28]: enabling CA instance
> >   [23/28]: migrating certificate profiles to LDAP
> >   [24/28]: importing IPA certificate profiles
> >   [error] NetworkError: cannot connect to 
> > 'https://ipa.lbhr.htm.lan:8443/ca/rest/account/login': [SSL: 
> > EE_KEY_TOO_SMALL] ee key too small (_ssl.c:3542)
> > cannot connect to 'https://ipa.lbhr.htm.lan:8443/ca/rest/account/login': 
> > [SSL: EE_KEY_TOO_SMALL] ee key too small (_ssl.c:3542)
> > The ipa-server-install command failed. See /var/log/ipaserver-install.log 
> > for more information
> > ```
> > 
> > So _some_ certificate _somewhere_ is not strong enough, but I can't find
> > which one it is and how to ensure it's strengthened sufficiently.
> > 
> > When I check the log file it shows basically the same message (except
> > with a lot of Python stacktraces with 'NetworkError')
> > 
> > When I revert the crypto-policy back to DEFAULT the command as shown
> > above will succeed.
> > 
> > Anyone have a clue? :)
> >
> 
> The RA agent certificate used by IPA is requested from certmonger
> without specifying key size so it defaults to 2048 (hardcoded).
> 
> I added a setting in upstream certmonger to be able to modify this
> default but it is not released yet.
> 
> On the IPA side, ipalib/install/certmonger.py::request_cert needs to be
> able to take a key size argument and pass in KEY_SIZE in the certmonger
> request. How that would tie into the rest of IPA is TBD as some default
> would need to be set somewhere.
> 
> What problem are you trying to solve using FUTURE policy? 4k keys are
> going to be quite slow.
> 
> rob
> 

Gotcha, is there any way I can add in that patch now?

I need to build an infrastructure based on EL8 which must be
CIS-compliant. In the most recent version of the requirements they state
the following:

- 1.10 Ensure system-wide crypto policy is not legacy (Scored)
- 1.11 Ensure system-wide crypto policy is FUTURE or FIPS (Scored)

We opted for FUTURE in our environment, but enabling this breaks the
setup :-)

(full document: 
https://paper.bobylive.com/Security/CIS/CIS_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_8_Benchmark_v1_0_0.pdf)

Cheers,

Jeff

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