On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:00:42AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > The testmgr code can mark an entire cipher implementation as fips_allowed=1 > as > already done for RSA. However, unlike with the other ciphers, that flag must > go in conjunction with the used key sizes. > > For FIPS mode, the following restrictions apply: > > - RSA: 2048/3072 > > - DSA: L 2048 / N 224; L 2048 / N 256; L 3072 / N 256 > > - ECDSA: only the NIST curves > > Any other key sizes for the given ciphers is not allowed in FIPS mode. > > Should that constraint be considered here?
Yes. However it should be placed into a helper that everybody can call so that future hardware implementations can also make the same checks. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
