fips check

[pgera]

/proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled needn't exist. There should be a check between these two lines:

fips_file = open("/proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled", "r")
fips_status = fips_file.read(1)

[sideangleside]

Are you stating that on your system that /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled doesn't exist on your system?

What OS version are you running (on the client)?

[pgera]

It's a RHEL 7.5 system, but running the mainline kernel from elrepo's kernel-ml. /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled seems to be a feature of the downstream RHEL kernel.

[evgeni]

it does exist on my Fedora 29 box (4.19.5-300.fc29.x86_64), but yeah, I think we can still add a check for it.

[evgeni]

@pgera please test #279