How to enable the legacy provider in openssl on RHEL9 ?

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Issue

  • By default RHEL9 disables the legacy provider for security reasons. However operations which needs legacy algorithms/ciphers fails.

    # openssl pkcs12 -in file.p12 -info -noout 
No output

  • How to enable support for legacy algorithms. Loading the legacy provider enables support for the following algorithms:

    Hashing Algorithms / Message Digests: MD2, MD4, MDC2, WHIRLPOOL, RIPEMD160
Symmetric Ciphers: Blowfish, CAST, DES, IDEA, RC2, RC4,RC5, SEED
Key Derivation Function (KDF): PBKDF1

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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