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<title>Crypto Policy</title>


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<para>Beginning in Fedora 21, a system-wide crypto policy will be available for users to quickly setup the cryptographic options for their systems.  Users that must meet certain cryptographic standards can make the policy change in <filename>//etc/crypto-policies/config</filename>, and run update-crypto-policies. At this point applications that utilize the default set of ciphers in the GnuTLS and OpenSSL libraries will follow the policy requirements.</para>
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|style="text-align: left;" | Firewall (F15 feature) || yes ||
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|style="text-align: left;"| pam_systemd || yes ||
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|style="text-align: left;"| OpenSCAP (secstat, firstaidkit) || yes/no || [[User:lewis41|Luigi Votta]]
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|style="text-align: left;"| DogTag Certificate System (PKI-*) || yes/no ||
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|style="text-align: left;"| SELinux Enhancements || yes/no ||
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|style="text-align: left;"| polkit-qt || yes/no ||
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|style="text-align: left;"| freeipa || yes/no ||
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|style="text-align: left;"| dnssec-tools & dnssec-config || yes/no ||
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= Security =
<para>The available options are: (1) <literal>LEGACY</literal>, which ensures compatibility with legacy systems - 64-bit security, (2) <literal>DEFAULT</literal>, a reasonable default for today's standards - 80-bit security, and (3) <literal>FUTURE</literal>, a conservative level that is believed to withstand any near-term future attacks - 128-bit security.  These levels affect SSL/TLS settings, including elliptic curve, signature hash functions, and ciphersuites and key sizes.</para>
This section describes the security changes and enhancements available in Fedora 15.   


== OpenSCAP ==
<para>Additional information on this new feature can be found on the <ulink url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CryptoPolicy">CryptoPolicy Changes wiki page</ulink>.</para>
First introduced in Fedora 14, OpenSCAP is a set of open source libraries providing an easier path for integration of the SCAP line of standards, managed by NIST and created to provide a standardized approach to maintaining the security of enterprise systems, such as automatically verifying the presence of patches, checking system security configuration settings, and examining systems for signs of compromise.
 
In Fedora 15, '''openscap''', the set of open source libraries enabling integration of the SCAP line of standards, has been upgraded from version 0.6.3 to 0.6.8. During these development stage there has been introduced full support for perl regular expression by default, OVAL float type support, XSL transformation improvements and Dublin Core support, added OVAL schemas version 5.6 and improved XCCDF reporting.
 
'''secstate''', the Security State Configuration Tool, has been rebuilt in Fedora 15 against version 0.4.1.
'''firstaidkit''', the System Rescue Tool that automates simple and common system recovery tasks, has been upgraded from 0.2.17 to version 0.2.18.  




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<title>Crypto Policy</title>

<para>Beginning in Fedora 21, a system-wide crypto policy will be available for users to quickly setup the cryptographic options for their systems. Users that must meet certain cryptographic standards can make the policy change in <filename>//etc/crypto-policies/config</filename>, and run update-crypto-policies. At this point applications that utilize the default set of ciphers in the GnuTLS and OpenSSL libraries will follow the policy requirements.</para>

<para>The available options are: (1) <literal>LEGACY</literal>, which ensures compatibility with legacy systems - 64-bit security, (2) <literal>DEFAULT</literal>, a reasonable default for today's standards - 80-bit security, and (3) <literal>FUTURE</literal>, a conservative level that is believed to withstand any near-term future attacks - 128-bit security. These levels affect SSL/TLS settings, including elliptic curve, signature hash functions, and ciphersuites and key sizes.</para>

<para>Additional information on this new feature can be found on the <ulink url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CryptoPolicy">CryptoPolicy Changes wiki page</ulink>.</para>

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