I was concerned that changing the default KDF for existing Ubuntu 22.04
users for FIPS reasons seemed inappropriate because some users might
object to that if (depending on their security perspective and who they
trust) they consider PBKDF2 to be a KDF downgrade. I appreciate that
upstream changed to PBKDF2 and this is present in newer Ubuntu releases,
but that doesn't mean that users expect the change to be backported for
FIPS reasons. On the other hand the OOM might be a reason to change it
in an SRU, but I'm not aware that we have any reports of Ubuntu users
being affected by that.

I concluded with Tobias and Ghadi that it would be preferred for the KDF
to default to PBKDF2 only if FIPS is enabled. That can be done either by
putting this in the FIPS archives only, or in an SRU to the main archive
with a runtime conditional on FIPS being enabled. Tobias prefers to do
this in an SRU to the main archive, so Ghadi will amend the upload to do
this.

This was an SRU review of the justification only - I haven't done any
code review yet.

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