Bug 2213674

Summary:	Workaround for hashlib.md5() without `usedforsecurity=False` in FIPS
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Rayes <chhuang>
Component:	python36	Assignee:	Python Maintainers <python-maint>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	RHEL CS Apps Subsystem QE <rhel-cs-apps-subsystem-qe>
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Version:	8.7	CC:	cstratak, pviktori, torsava
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Description Rayes 2023-06-09 01:02:36 UTC

Description of problem:
Looking for opinion if we can add the features of hashlib.md5() from below:
https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11658/files


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python36-3.6.8-38.module+el8.5.0+12207+5c5719bc.x86_64     
python3-libs-3.6.8-15.1.el8.x86_64


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Comment 3 Petr Viktorin 2023-06-12 08:10:28 UTC

I don't know if I understand "add features from https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11658/files to python3.6 is possible" correctly. Could you clarify what features we're talking about?
Is it the usedforsecurity argument for `md5`? That is already there: RHEL's Python 3.6 allows it. (RHEL has supported it for a long time. In Python 3.9 it was added *upstream*, i.e. since 3.9 the non-RHEL distributions of Python also support it.)

At a global level, only disabling FIPS mode is possible. As said above we can't enable md5 globally and somehow leave the rest of FIPS mode on.

Comment 5 Tomas Orsava 2023-07-12 12:16:26 UTC

There hasn't been a response for a month, closing the request. Please reopen if you'd like to discuss the issue further.