Thanks, I see all remaining remarks from comment #9 are addressed. The
patch matches upstream, builds fine and passes local autopkgtests.

@Ghadi also provided additional evidence from the Security Engineering
team:

sespiros:
"Security standards might be able to provide a more authoritative answer but it 
looks good to me. imo this falls more into the bug category rather than a FIPS 
related change and separately I don't think it would be worth for instance 
solving it differently (like lowering the memory cost of pbkdf and keep using 
argon) since this helps with FIPS, it is a universe package (lower priority) 
and we are also not using clevis in our own FDE. I also don't think it should 
count as a security update. My first thought of potential breakage of existing 
ubuntu users that have already used clevis with keys generated with the old 
format, seem to have already been discussed in the SRU."

chrisccoulson:
"clevis isn't something we really care about or support, but I guess the change 
is ok given the justification that the entropy supplied to the KDF is high (we 
already made a similar change in Ubuntu Core for this reason). FTR, we did have 
someone request that the default KDF for cryptsetup be changed from argon2i (at 
the time - it's argon2id now) to pbkdf2 in order to satisfy FIPS requirements, 
and we declined that because it's primary input is low entropy user 
passphrases, and we didn't see weakening security to meet certification 
requirements as a good trade off"

(Internal reference:
https://chat.canonical.com/canonical/pl/pyi7wbx33irrfp1b5zbz79uagc)


LGTM. Sponsored for SRU review and unsubscribed ~ubuntu-sponsors.

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