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[DOCUMENTATION] Add Note About EL8 FIPS-mode Not Accepting Non-SHA2 RSA keys #636

Closed ferricoxide closed 10 months ago

ferricoxide commented 10 months ago

Encountered in PKI-enabled environments where PKI tokens are issued by a centralized token-management authority: if issued RSAv2 token is not at least 2048-bits (4096-bits – or higher – preferred) and doesn't use a SHA256 or better digest mechanism, the EL8 FIPS configuration will reject the presented RSAv2 login-key.

Note: the key will still be accepted for agent-forwarding purposes, just not accepted for the purpose of authentication to the operating system.