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WHATSNEW: Document new GnuTLS 3.4.7 requirement

Signed-off-by: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Gary Lockyer <gary@catalyst.net.nz>

Autobuild-User(master): Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date(master): Tue Aug 27 06:01:50 UTC 2019 on sn-devel-184
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Andrew Bartlett 2019-08-26 14:39:40 +12:00
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GnuTLS 3.4.7 required
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Samba is making efforts to remove in-tree cryptographic functionality,
and to instead rely on externally maintained libraries. To this end,
Samba has chosen GnuTLS as our standard cryptographic provider.
Samba now requires GnuTLS 3.4.7 to be installed (including development
headers at build time) for all configurations, not just the Samba AD
DC.
NOTE WELL: The use of GnuTLS means that Samba will honour the
system-wide 'FIPS mode' (a reference to the US FIPS-140 cryptographic
standard) and so will not operate in many still common situations if
this system-wide parameter is in effect, as many of our protocols rely
on outdated cryptography.
A future Samba version will mitigate this to some extent where good
cryptography effectively wraps bad cryptography, but for now that above
applies.
REMOVED FEATURES
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