Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-bugtool: Switch from MD5 to SHA-256.

2016-08-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 07:59:10AM -0500, Ryan Moats wrote: > > > "dev" wrote on 08/10/2016 11:14:27 PM: > > > From: Ben Pfaff > > To: dev@openvswitch.org > > Cc: Ben Pfaff > > Date: 08/10/2016 11:14 PM > > Subject: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-bu

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-bugtool: Switch from MD5 to SHA-256.

2016-08-11 Thread Ryan Moats
"dev" wrote on 08/10/2016 11:14:27 PM: > From: Ben Pfaff > To: dev@openvswitch.org > Cc: Ben Pfaff > Date: 08/10/2016 11:14 PM > Subject: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-bugtool: Switch from MD5 to SHA-256. > Sent by: "dev" > > While going through a FIPS ce

[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-bugtool: Switch from MD5 to SHA-256.

2016-08-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
While going through a FIPS certification process we discovered that ovs-bugtool uses MD5 to identify the contents of files. FIPS doesn't allow use of the obsolete and broken MD5 algorithm, so this commit switches to SHA-256. In a way, this is a silly requirement. ovs-bugtool only uses MD5 to ide