Please allow fips=no even if !USE_FIPS

10 Mar
2014
10 Mar
'14
7:14 p.m.
It's currently impossible to make a stunnel config file that works with reasonable settings on both a USE_FIPS build (e.g. Fedora) and a !USE_FIPS build (e.g. Ubuntu). This is because, if USE_FIPS, fips defaults to "yes" (which is, for most purposes, a serious problem) and, if !USE_FIPS, the setting 'fips=no' prevents stunnel from starting. I've observed this on stunnel 4.53, and it looks like the same issue exists in the source in stunnel 4.56 and 5.00. (Note that, if targetting stunnel 5.00, this is less of an issue, since the default value of 'fips' changed. Nonetheless, it would be nice to accept 'fips=no' to avoid surprises.) Thanks, Andy
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Andy Lutomirski