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  1. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
  2. JBEAP-10920

FIPS mode, Elytron HTTP DIGEST authentication mechanism not fips compliant

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Won't Do
    • Major
    • None
    • 7.1.0.DR18
    • Security

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      Elytron HTTP DIGEST authentication comply to rfc2617 - which means MD5 is used by default (it means it is hardcode, with no way to configure another hash algorithm). But MD5 could make troubles in fips environment [5].

      DigestAuthenticationMechanism.java
              String algorithm = convertToken(ALGORITHM, responseTokens.get(ALGORITHM));
              if (MD5.equals(algorithm) == false) {
                  throw log.mechUnsupportedAlgorithm(getMechanismName(), algorithm);
              }
      

      There exists proposed rfc7616 which makes algorithm configurable, work on new DIGEST features are covered by [1]. dlofthouse is it planned for [1] to target 7.1?

      [1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ELY-286
      [2] https://developer.jboss.org/wiki/ElytronHTTPDigestNonceHandling-Design
      [3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617
      [4] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7616
      [5] https://access.redhat.com/support/cases/#/case/01761455

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              rhn-support-ivassile Ilia Vassilev
              mchoma@redhat.com Martin Choma
              Darran Lofthouse
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