Bug 703490
| Summary: | Add optional seeding from /dev/random in the FIPS mode | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel> |
| Component: | libgcrypt | Assignee: | Tomas Mraz <tmraz> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Ondrej Moriš <omoris> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | urgent | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | CC: | ebenes, iboverma, mbroz, mvadkert, omoris, pkovar, pm-eus, pvrabec, sgrubb, smueller, tmraz |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | FutureFeature, ZStream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | libgcrypt-1.4.5-5.el6_1.1 | Doc Type: | Enhancement |
| Doc Text: |
In FIPS mode, libgcrypt can now use a configurable source of RNG (Random Number Generator) seed. On systems with sufficient amount of entropy gathered from the kernel entropy sources or systems with hardware RNGs, the system administrator can add the "/etc/gcrypt/rngseed" symbolic link pointing to the "/dev/random" device node or a hardware RNG device. This symbolic link will be then opened and read by the libgcrypt library to initialize its RNG.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-05-19 14:01:04 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
| Bug Depends On: | 700388 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 584498, 846801, 846802 | ||
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Description
RHEL Program Management
2011-05-10 14:06:13 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-0515.html
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In FIPS mode, libgcrypt can now use a configurable source of RNG (Random Number Generator) seed. On systems with sufficient amount of entropy gathered from the kernel entropy sources or systems with hardware RNGs, the system administrator can add the "/etc/gcrypt/rngseed" symbolic link pointing to the "/dev/random" device node or a hardware RNG device. This symbolic link will be then opened and read by the libgcrypt library to initialize its RNG.
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