From: Andreas Stieger Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:23:12 +0200 Subject: Add an example for a FIPS 140-2 approved cipher configuration to the sample configuration file References: bsc#988522 https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/commit/bde1b90da0db2d68d13d274102986f0ca7096c00 Upstream: no The 2.3 default is blowfish which does not work in FIPS mode. This change was done in 2.4, and 2.4 will negotiate AES-256-GCM in TLS mode. Index: openvpn-2.3.8/sample/sample-config-files/client.conf =================================================================== --- openvpn-2.3.8.orig/sample/sample-config-files/client.conf 2015-07-17 07:43:32.000000000 +0200 +++ openvpn-2.3.8/sample/sample-config-files/client.conf 2016-09-08 15:12:32.650248879 +0200 @@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ remote-cert-tls server # If the cipher option is used on the server # then you must also specify it here. ;cipher x +# Use a FIPS 140-2 approved cipher in FIPS mode +;cipher AES-256-CBC # AES-256 # Enable compression on the VPN link. # Don't enable this unless it is also Index: openvpn-2.3.8/sample/sample-config-files/server.conf =================================================================== --- openvpn-2.3.8.orig/sample/sample-config-files/server.conf 2015-07-17 07:43:32.000000000 +0200 +++ openvpn-2.3.8/sample/sample-config-files/server.conf 2016-09-08 15:11:55.869874892 +0200 @@ -249,6 +249,8 @@ keepalive 10 120 ;cipher BF-CBC # Blowfish (default) ;cipher AES-128-CBC # AES ;cipher DES-EDE3-CBC # Triple-DES +# Use a FIPS 140-2 approved cipher in FIPS mode +;cipher AES-256-CBC # AES-256 # Enable compression on the VPN link. # If you enable it here, you must also