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This allows prebuild-install to be used on fips systems
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Just ran into the same issue this week - your fix looks good to me! |
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I have had the same issue when working with sharp-js library. Is there a chnace that this PR would be approved? cc: @vweevers |
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@lovell Any chance we could get this merged? I'm also running into the same issue. FIPS-compliant systems ban the use of MD5 altogether so any libraries which have |
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| function cachedPrebuild (url) { | ||
| const digest = crypto.createHash('md5').update(url).digest('hex').slice(0, 6) | ||
| const digest = crypto.createHash('sha512').update(url).digest('hex').slice(0, 6) |
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If the reason for not using an MD5 hash under the rules of FIPS is its predictability and therefore increased chance of collision then the subsequent use of slice(0, 6) negates hash choice anyway. 😅
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Well, it doesn't much matter in the end. This code will not be running as part of the system, only during build.
At the same time, node unfortunately, does not have an equivalent of usedforsecurity parameter from python's hashlib
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I originally tagged this as |
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Ready to merge? :) |
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7.1.2 now available |
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This allows prebuild-install to be used on fips systems