Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vnc: disable VNC password authentication (security type 2) when in FIPS mode

2012-06-11 Thread Roman Drahtmueller
I was "beached", sorry for the late reply. On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Alexander Graf wrote: > On 07.06.2012, at 05:10, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > On 06/07/2012 06:56 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > >> On Wednesday, June 06, 2012 01:56:52 AM Alexander Graf wrote: > >>> The other one (FIPS) is basically a list o

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vnc: disable VNC password authentication (security type 2) when in FIPS mode

2012-05-04 Thread Roman Drahtmueller
> > > FIPS 140-2 requires disabling certain ciphers, including DES, which is > > > used > > > by VNC to obscure passwords when they are sent over the network. The > > > solution for FIPS users is to disable the use of VNC password auth when > > > the > > > host system is operating in FIPS mode. >