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Disable SSL 3.0 and RC4

The SSL 3.0 protocol and the RC4 cipher are considered insecure and vulnerable to attacks. As such, these two are disabled by default for all Fedora components that use the system-wide crypto policies. This includes gnutls and openssl libraries, and all the applications based on them.

Applications or environments that require SSL 3.0 or RC4 can use update-crypto-policies to globally switch to the LEGACY policy to enable SSL 3.0 and RC4.

Note (Use note tag) - All applications that use TLS from NSS are not affected by this change.

OpenSSH 7.1

The OpenSSH project continues to improve the security of network communication with the release of OpenSSH version 7.1. Details of the release are available at http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.1

Package Hardening

Packages compiled for Fedora 23 will be compiled with a position-independent code flag enabled by default. This was an optional setting that as a default will protect users from certain potential security vulnerabilities.

Standardized Passphrase Policy

A common password policy is being utilized to provide a set of consistent rules for password policies. These rules can be modified locally to fit user needs.

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-== Security ==
+{{header|docs}}{{Docs_beat_open}}
-This section highlights various security items from Fedora.
+== Disable SSL 3.0 and RC4 ==
-=== Fingerprint Readers ===
+The SSL 3.0 protocol and the RC4 cipher are considered insecure and vulnerable to attacks. As such, these two are disabled by default for all Fedora components that use the system-wide crypto policies.  This includes gnutls and openssl libraries, and all the applications based on them.
-Fingerprint readers are now better integrated with Fedora 11. Gnome users can easily setup fingerprint authentication using {{command|gnome-about-me}}, and will allow the ability to login from both {{package|gdm}} and {{package|gnome-screensaver}}.
+Applications or environments that require SSL 3.0 or RC4 can use [https://github.com/nmav/fedora-crypto-policies/blob/master/crypto-policies.8.txt update-crypto-policies] to globally switch to the LEGACY policy to enable SSL 3.0 and RC4.
-=== System Security Services Daemon ===
+'''Note (Use note tag)''' - All applications that use TLS  from NSS are not affected by this change.
-The SSSD is intended to provide several key feature enhancements to Fedora. The first being the addition of offline caching for network credentials. Authentication through the SSSD will potentially allow LDAP, NIS, and FreeIPA services to provide an offline mode, to ease the use of centrally managing laptop users.
+== OpenSSH 7.1 ==
+The OpenSSH project continues to improve the security of network communication with the release of OpenSSH version 7.1.  Details of the release are available at http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.1
-The LDAP features will also add support for connection pooling. All communication to the ldap server will happen over a single persistent connection, reducing the overhead of opening a new socket for each request. The SSSD will also add support for multiple LDAP/NIS domains. It will be possible to connect to two or more LDAP/NIS servers acting as separate user namespaces.
+== Package Hardening ==
+Packages compiled for Fedora 23 will be compiled with a position-independent code flag enabled by default. This was an optional setting that as a default will protect users from certain potential security vulnerabilities.
-=== SHA-2 support ===
+== Standardized Passphrase Policy  ==
+A common password policy is being utilized to provide a set of consistent rules for password policies. These rules can be modified locally to fit user needs.
-Fedora now uses the SHA-256 digest algorithm for data verification and authentication in more places than before, migrating from the weaker SHA-1 and MD5 algorithms. Where possible, the migration was transparent; in other places the default configuration was changed or manual configuration is necessary to use the stronger algorithms.
+[[Category:Docs Project]]
+[[Category:Draft documentation]]
+[[Category:Documentation beats]]

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