[sos-devel] [PATCH] detect FIPS mode and switch to sha256sum

[Bryn M. Reeves]

Hi Folks,

This resolves:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689387

When operating in FIPS mode the md5 digest algorithm is forbidden and will cause
an exception when generating the report checksum. Detect FIPS mode via
/proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled and switch to sha256.

In future we should expose this as a command line / configuration file option
(and factor out fipsModeEnabled() as a general routine).

Regards,
Bryn.

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