On 2/16/24 04:16, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 15 Feb 2024, at 16:49, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>
>> 1. All the block ciphers currently supported by crypt() and gen_salt() are not FIPS-compliant.
>>
>> 2. The crypt() and gen_salt() methods built on top of them (modes of operation, kind of) are not FIPS-compliant.
>
> I wonder if it's worth trying to make pgcrypto disallow non-FIPS compliant
> ciphers when the compiled against OpenSSL is running with FIPS mode enabled, or
> raise a WARNING when used? It seems rather unlikely that someone running
> OpenSSL with FIPS=yes want to use our DES cipher without there being an error
> or misconfiguration somewhere.
>
> Something like the below untested pseudocode.
>
> diff --git a/contrib/pgcrypto/pgcrypto.c b/contrib/pgcrypto/pgcrypto.c
> index 96447c5757..3d4391ebe1 100644
> --- a/contrib/pgcrypto/pgcrypto.c
> +++ b/contrib/pgcrypto/pgcrypto.c
> @@ -187,6 +187,14 @@ pg_crypt(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
> *resbuf;
> text *res;
>
> +#if defined FIPS_mode
> + if (FIPS_mode())
> +#else
> + if (EVP_default_properties_is_fips_enabled(OSSL_LIB_CTX_get0_global_default()))
> +#endif
> + ereport(ERROR,
> + (errmsg("not available when using OpenSSL in FIPS mode")));
Makes sense +1
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Joe Conway
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