Re: [PATCH] security: fix DH key generation when FIPS mode is on

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On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:33:37AM +0200, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> When FIPS mode is on, gnutls_dh_params_generate2 will fail if 1024 is
> specified as the prime's number of bits, a bigger value works in both
> cases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> with the development version of GNU TLS is possible to test FIPS mode
> setting the env variable GNUTLS_FORCE_FIPS_MODE=2

How about we set that env variable in our two TLS tests too, because
we really want libvirt to be always able to run in FIPS mode.

>  src/rpc/virnettlscontext.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/rpc/virnettlscontext.c b/src/rpc/virnettlscontext.c
> index 31aac9d..947038d 100644
> --- a/src/rpc/virnettlscontext.c
> +++ b/src/rpc/virnettlscontext.c
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
>  #include "virthread.h"
>  #include "configmake.h"
>  
> -#define DH_BITS 1024
> +#define DH_BITS 2048
>  
>  #define LIBVIRT_PKI_DIR SYSCONFDIR "/pki"
>  #define LIBVIRT_CACERT LIBVIRT_PKI_DIR "/CA/cacert.pem"

ACK


Regards,
Daniel
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