[PATCH] virnettlshelpers: Update private key

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Wed Jul 1 09:45:15 UTC 2020


With the recent update of Fedora rawhide I've noticed
virnettlssessiontest and virnettlscontexttest failing with:

  Our own certificate servercertreq-ctx.pem failed validation
  against cacertreq-ctx.pem: The certificate uses an insecure
  algorithm

This is result of Fedora changes to support strong crypto [1]. RSA
with 1024 bit key is viewed as legacy and thus insecure. Generate
a new private key then. Moreover, switch to EC which is not only
shorter but also not deprecated that often as RSA. Generated
using the following command:

  openssl genpkey --outform PEM --out privkey.pem \
  --algorithm EC --pkeyopt ec_paramgen_curve:P-384 \
  --pkeyopt ec_param_enc:named_curve

1: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/StrongCryptoSettings2

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
---

According to our CI all systems support ecliptic curves:

  https://gitlab.com/MichalPrivoznik/libvirt/-/pipelines/161932641

but maybe this should be merged only after the release?

 tests/virnettlshelpers.c | 20 ++++----------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/virnettlshelpers.c b/tests/virnettlshelpers.c
index e2b8e8359a..979afed307 100644
--- a/tests/virnettlshelpers.c
+++ b/tests/virnettlshelpers.c
@@ -47,22 +47,10 @@ extern const ASN1_ARRAY_TYPE pkix_asn1_tab[];
 gnutls_x509_privkey_t privkey;
 # define PRIVATE_KEY \
     "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\n" \
-    "MIICdQIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAASCAl8wggJbAgEAAoGBALVcr\n" \
-    "BL40Tm6yq88FBhJNw1aaoCjmtg0l4dWQZ/e9Fimx4ARxFpT+ji4FE\n" \
-    "Cgl9s/SGqC+1nvlkm9ViSo0j7MKDbnDB+VRHDvMAzQhA2X7e8M0n9\n" \
-    "rPolUY2lIVC83q0BBaOBkCj2RSmT2xTEbbC2xLukSrg2WP/ihVOxc\n" \
-    "kXRuyFtzAgMBAAECgYB7slBexDwXrtItAMIH6m/U+LUpNe0Xx48OL\n" \
-    "IOn4a4whNgO/o84uIwygUK27ZGFZT0kAGAk8CdF9hA6ArcbQ62s1H\n" \
-    "myxrUbF9/mrLsQw1NEqpuUk9Ay2Tx5U/wPx35S3W/X2AvR/ZpTnCn\n" \
-    "2q/7ym9fyiSoj86drD7BTvmKXlOnOwQJBAPOFMp4mMa9NGpGuEssO\n" \
-    "m3Uwbp6lhcP0cA9MK+iOmeANpoKWfBdk5O34VbmeXnGYWEkrnX+9J\n" \
-    "bM4wVhnnBWtgBMCQQC+qAEmvwcfhauERKYznMVUVksyeuhxhCe7EK\n" \
-    "mPh+U2+g0WwdKvGDgO0PPt1gq0ILEjspMDeMHVdTwkaVBo/uMhAkA\n" \
-    "Z5SsZyCP2aTOPFDypXRdI4eqRcjaEPOUBq27r3uYb/jeboVb2weLa\n" \
-    "L1MmVuHiIHoa5clswPdWVI2y0em2IGoDAkBPSp/v9VKJEZabk9Frd\n" \
-    "a+7u4fanrM9QrEjY3KhduslSilXZZSxrWjjAJPyPiqFb3M8XXA26W\n" \
-    "nz1KYGnqYKhLcBAkB7dt57n9xfrhDpuyVEv+Uv1D3VVAhZlsaZ5Pp\n" \
-    "dcrhrkJn2sa/+O8OKvdrPSeeu/N5WwYhJf61+CPoenMp7IFci\n" \
+    "MIG2AgEAMBAGByqGSM49AgEGBSuBBAAiBIGeMIGbAgEBBDD39t6GRLeEmsYjRGR6\n" \
+    "iQiIN2S4zXsgLGS/2GloXdG7K+i/3vEJDt9celZ0DfCLcG6hZANiAAQTJIe13jy7\n" \
+    "k4KTXMkHQHEJa/asH263JaPL5kTbfRa6tMq3DS3pzWlOj+NHY/9JzthrKD+Ece+g\n" \
+    "2g/POHa0gfXRYXGiHTs8mY0AHFqNNmF38eIVGjOqobIi90MkyI3wx4g=\n" \
     "-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n"
 
 /*
-- 
2.26.2




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