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Re: Is there a FIPS-compliant version of curl for NTLM ?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 23:19:26 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Paul D Rotter wrote:

> I am working on FIPS-compliance for our product which uses curl/openssl.
> I've built and verified the FIPS-compliant OpenSSL, but the one area where
> we are still receiving FIPS errors is in the curl NTLM authentication
> functions:
>  
> These functions use a single DES cipher which is not FIPS-approved.

NTLM requires DES. You can't do NTLM without it so if DES is forbidded you
need to switch off NTLM.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se

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