Thanks Harald for your reply. I do not disagree with anything you said.

Unfortunately we cannot tell the US Govt that their requirements are stupid.

When openssl is in FIPS mode, md5 & sha1 are disabled for everyone.

So any usage from mariadb (linked with openssl) will fail.

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 4:33 PM Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net> wrote:

Am 30.08.19 um 00:10 schrieb Captain Wiggum:
> I have searched the archives and forums and cannot find an answer to
> this question.
> Does mariadb support FIPS, and if so, how or where is a document about this.
> I use mariadb 10.3.17 with OpenSSL 1.0.2 with FIPS enabled, all built
> from source.
> In FIPS mode, SHA1 is disallowed by openssl, as required by FIPS.
> However, when I search the mariadb code, SHA1 is used in many places.
> How can I update mariadb to use sha256, without a ton of recoding?
> Any tips appreciated.

outside of encryption code nothing is wrong with SHA1 depending on the
usecase and without context "SHA1 is used in many place" is a useless
statement

there are even usecases where MD4 is just fine

againb: not every usage of a hash function is security related or
collisions prone and in that case it would be pretty dumb use a much
slower sha256 hash

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