[issue9216] FIPS support for hashlib

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

Patch 0002:

- cached_info->error_msg doesn't seem deallocated anywhere?

Patch 0003:

- "usedforsecurity" is a poor name IMO; make it shorter and/or PEP8-ize it ("used_for_security")
- the 2-element context array thing is obscure: why not distinct "ctx" and "ctx_non_fips" members?
- "this could fail, e.g. low on memory, or encodings": doesn't it lack an error-handling path, then?

Patch 0004:

- openssl_can_enforce_fips(): instead of calling OpenSSL in a subprocess, perhaps it's possible to expose a public flag in the hashlib module (e.g. "hashlib.HAS_FIPS")? or is this info not fetchable programmatically?
- openssl_can_enforce_fips() needs to check the subprocess return code, in case another error happened
- run_command_with_fips_enforcement() should use the assert_python_ok() and assert_python_failure() functions from Lib/test/script_helper.py

Overall:

- please put back the unconditional tests for the "usedforsecurity" argument (even when FIPS can't be enforced)
- the patches lack docs (Doc/library/hashlib.rst)
- please commit all this as a single commit, not 4 different ones

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nosy: +pitrou

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