On Wed Feb 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM -03, Clemens Lang wrote:
> Hi Werner,
>
>> On 12. Feb 2025, at 09:25, Werner Koch via Gcrypt-devel 
>> <gcrypt-devel@gnupg.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon,  3 Feb 2025 15:56, Lucas Mulling said:
>> 
>>> Consider: NIST's deprecation of SHA1, effective 2030-12-31.
>> 
>> That are 5.5 years in the future.  Not a good idea to do it now.
>
> This matters because FIPS validations are valid for five years, but will have 
> their lifetime limited to NIST’s SHA1 sunset date if they allow SHA1.
>
> If you do a FIPS validation now, you’ll likely get a certificate in ~2 years, 
> which then won’t be valid for 5, but only 3, because the build included 
> support for SHA1.

Yes, also note that operations with SHA1 are not blocked by default, and
should work normally unless GCRY_FIPS_FLAG_REJECT_MD_SHA1 is explicitly set.

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