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Description of problem: libssh 0.8 introduces some API to generate and show SHA256 fingerprints of host keys. The current 0.7 version only offers MD5 and SHA1, both of which are cryptographically broken now. Trying to use them causes assertion errors in OpenSSL when enabling FIPS mode (see bug 1585191).

To solve that in Cockpit, I just sent https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/10241 to use SSH_PUBLICKEY_HASH_SHA256 and 
ssh_get_fingerprint_hash() instead of ssh_get_hexa() (as SHA256 FPs are shown as base64 instead of hex by ssh, and hex keys are rather unwieldy at that length).

But to fix this cockpit-ssh bug in RHEL 7, I'd need these new APIs backported.

In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1585191#c13, Andreas already put a backport patch for SSH_PUBLICKEY_HASH_SHA256. Hopefully ssh_get_fingerprint_hash() is also not too intrusive to backport?

Anderson, could you please take care of this? The patches have all been backported to the v0-7 branch of libssh upstream.

I pushed SHA256 support patches to dist-git, plus the fix for the "interactive keyboard" authentication (bug 1640812). I locally mockbuilt libssh and cockpit with the corresponding fix, and everything works -- I get SHA256 fingerprints, and it does not crash in FIPS mode.

build: https://brewweb.engineering.redhat.com/brew/buildinfo?buildID=789421

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3712