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As encryption norms get more strict it's easy to fall on the insecure side. For instance, so far we are generating 2048 bits long prime for Diffie-Hellman keys. Some systems consider this not long enough. While we may just keep increasing the value passed to the corresponding gnutls_* function, that is not well maintainable. Instead, we may do what's recommended in the gnutls_* manpage. From gnutls_dh_params_generate2(3): It is recommended not to set the number of bits directly, but use gnutls_sec_param_to_pk_bits() instead. Looking into the gnutls_sec_param_to_pk_bits() then [1], 2048 bits corresponds to parameter MEDIUM. 1: https://www.gnutls.org/manual/gnutls.html#tab_003akey_002dsizes Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca> Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:
License
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser
General Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code
that are not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU
General Public License, version 2.0 (or later). See the files
COPYING.LESSER and COPYING for full license
terms & conditions.
Installation
Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/compiling.html
Contributing
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: