On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 05:38:12PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote: > 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. > > This patch causes QEMU to emit a message to stderr when the host system is > running in FIPS mode and a VNC password was specified on the commend line. > If the system is not running in FIPS mode, or is running in FIPS mode but > VNC password authentication was not requested, QEMU operates normally. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmo...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
