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| author | Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> | 2012-10-10 07:06:03 -0300 |
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| committer | Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> | 2012-10-10 07:06:03 -0300 |
| commit | 89a3ad0b6e7cfd7bc5588e8bbf243e99a0b8562d (patch) | |
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| parent | e745142509a427ccb9b14ee94ff24f7f36f7f4b6 (diff) | |
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* NEWS: Add note about FIPS mode. Wording suggested by Roland
McGrath.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 490e4dca15..4d18638131 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ Version 2.17 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc. +* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the + specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will + consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is + enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm + when the mode is enabled. + Version 2.16 |