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Authored by obrien on Oct 18 2025, 3:49 AM.
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Summary

The Hifn 7955 & 7956 only supports deprecated & NIST disallowed
algorithms (NIST SP800-224idp): SHA1 and SHA1-HMAC.

Furtermore the entropy RNG of the Hifn 7751, 7951, 7811, 7955,
and 7956 has no NIST Entropy Source Validation (ESV) certificate
and cannot be used in a FIPS-140-3 nor Common Criteara environment.

Furtermore the most prolific instance for FreeBSD was the
Soekris Engineering vpn1201, vpn1211, vpn1401, and vpn1411
offerings. These are all 32-bit only processors. The i386
kernel was de-supported in 15.0.

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obrien created this revision.Oct 18 2025, 3:49 AM
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obrien requested review of this revision.Oct 18 2025, 3:49 AM
Harbormaster completed remote builds in B67890: Diff 164469.Oct 18 2025, 3:49 AM
obrien updated this revision to Diff 164471.Oct 18 2025, 4:10 AM

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Harbormaster completed remote builds in B67892: Diff 164471.Oct 18 2025, 4:10 AM
obrien mentioned this in D53181: random: remove safe(4).Oct 21 2025, 9:03 PM
emaste added a subscriber: emaste.Oct 22 2025, 6:25 PM

Also share/man/man4/hifn.4 and any possible xrefs

obrien updated this revision to Diff 164785.Oct 22 2025, 6:51 PM

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Harbormaster completed remote builds in B67999: Diff 164785.Oct 22 2025, 6:51 PM
obrien updated this revision to Diff 164788.Oct 22 2025, 7:21 PM

more instances

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B68001: Diff 164788.Oct 22 2025, 7:21 PM
jhb accepted this revision.Oct 28 2025, 7:02 PM
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As with safe(4), FreeBSD itself has not yet deprecated SHA1 and SHA1-HMAC, but I think the hardware is ancient.

ObsoleteFiles.inc
54

Typical comment lines for drivers are this succinct (and we don't generally list FreeBSD versions in this file)

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Oct 28 2025, 7:02 PM
jhb added a comment.Oct 28 2025, 7:03 PM

s/Furtermore/Furthermore/g in the commit log btw.

obrien marked an inline comment as done.Oct 28 2025, 11:45 PM
obrien updated this revision to Diff 165270.Oct 28 2025, 11:45 PM

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This revision now requires review to proceed.Oct 28 2025, 11:45 PM
Harbormaster completed remote builds in B68203: Diff 165270.Oct 28 2025, 11:45 PM
This revision was not accepted when it landed; it landed in state Needs Review.Oct 29 2025, 6:03 AM
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