Re: Schedule for Monday's FESCo Meeting (2021-08-23)

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Once upon a time, Alexander Sosedkin <asosedkin@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Sure. Crypto-policies are there to give you control of what's enabled,
> ideally what's enabled by default.
> 
> 1) There's a blanket `update-crypto-policies --set LEGACY`
> 2) There's a possibility to reenable disabled algorithms with custom policies,
>    allowing to go even lower than LEGACY (which you
>    shouldn't really do on public networks, but who's there to stop you)
> 3) (F35+) There's a possibility to reenable algorithms per backends,
>    say, for NSS, Java or krb5 only
> 4) (In an ideal world) crypto-policies settings should act as defaults,
>    meaning apps should be able to further modify them,
>   offer weaker methods with a warning, etc
> 5) There are total per-backend opt-out mechanisms / procedures

Missing #4 is what makes a lot of this not as useful.  I understand the
effort that has gone into this and appreciate stepping up security,
but... what matters as a user is "can I get to this site in Firefox",
"does this VPN work", etc.  Browsers are probably the highest-impact
user of this, and it is all-or-nothing there AFAIK.  Having to lower the
level across the board so that I can download router firmware images or
connect to my work VPN kind of scraps all the effort.

-- 
Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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