FIPS compliant protection of stored private keys
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• werner
Fri, Oct 9, 11:59 AM
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Description

To be FIPS compliant we need to avoid OCB in the protection of private key files.

  • We need an option for fips compliance in gpg-agent (or better common.conf)
  • Use GCM with a fully random IV and PKKDF2

We already support two schemes (the old MDC style one and the OCB). We may want to rework the code to make it better extensible.

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• werner triaged this task as Wishlist priority.Fri, Oct 9, 11:59 AM
• werner created this task.