[gnutls-help] FIPS ciphers list is wrong

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Thu Mar 12 07:19:47 CET 2015


On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 13:27 -0400, jonetsu wrote:
> > From: "Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos" <nmav at gnutls.org> 
> > Date: 03/11/15 11:27 
> > GNUTLS_FORCE_FIPS_MODE=1 ./gnutls-cli -l --priority NORMAL
> > ./gnutls-cli -l --priority NORMAL
> Thanks.  In the resulting list many TLS1.0 are found:
> 
> (abridged list)
> 
>  TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA256       TLS1.0
>  TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384       TLS1.0
>  TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_CAMELLIA_128_CBC_SHA256  TLS1.0
>  TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_CAMELLIA_256_CBC_SHA384  TLS1.0
>  TLS_ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA256         TLS1.0
>  [...]
> However, NIST Special Publication 800-52 Revision 1 specifies
> that no TLS1.0 should be used.
> Please see '3.1 Protocol Version Support' in:
>
http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-52r1.pdf

That's correct, but I don't think that SP800-52 is a requirement in
FIPS140-2. Do you have such a reference?

regards,
Nikos






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