Re: SHA-1 FIPS - compliance

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Filip Janus <fjanus(at)redhat(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SHA-1 FIPS - compliance
Date: 2021-07-08 13:58:35
Message-ID: 20210708135835.GC11707@momjian.us
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On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 02:33:33PM +0200, Filip Janus wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am a new maintainer of PostgreSQL in Fedora and RHEL. Currently, I am solving
> usage SHA-1  for key-derivation in pgcrypto (the s2k-digest-algo).  In the
> documentation, I have found that there are options SHA-1 or MD5. Unfortunately,
> none of these algorithms are FIPS compliant. So I would like to ask if exists a
> possibility to add or enable support for some type of stronger hash algorithm?

I don't know of any official way to disable them, but I do know that PG
14 will use a different set of algorithms that are more FIPS-compliant
because we rely more on the OpenSSL for its implementation (or
blockage).

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