There's a couple obvious counter-arguments. 1. If you don't like RedHat's product, don't use it:) Feel free to complain about it, provided you're willing to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem. 2. If you want to try and take an active hand in improving the quality of RedHat releases, fax them your resume' and try to get employed.
There's no law that says any part of the login procedure on a Linux machine has to be open-source.. somebody could easily write a closed-source system with crypto code in it that'd get around this particular element of FIPS.
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There's a couple obvious counter-arguments. :) Feel free to complain about it, provided you're willing to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
1. If you don't like RedHat's product, don't use it
2. If you want to try and take an active hand in improving the quality of RedHat releases, fax them your resume' and try to get employed.
There's no law that says any part of the login procedure on a Linux machine has to be open-source.. somebody could easily write a closed-source system with crypto code in it that'd get around this particular element of FIPS.