Complete Guide: Installing crypto-policies on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) 2024

1. Install "crypto-policies" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install crypto-policies on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "crypto-policies" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall crypto-policies on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                crypto-policies
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the crypto-policies package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: crypto-policies
Architecture: all
Version: 20190816git-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Hideki Yamane
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 202
Depends: python3
Filename: pool/universe/c/crypto-policies/crypto-policies_20190816git-1_all.deb
Size: 33656
MD5sum: 4f1be5ac375f4cb68c774b699a4c2bb1
SHA1: 6220259b2458bcc7c826c20cb44a3865ac59659f
SHA256: b5062db5b8dfe88f213e3cf25e731db20f6440372fbbddb73a839f3fdba40ca4
SHA512: 4805172864afb62a6db0589a34b67fea32602ab4ccb5714b8c3f7cdcaa59096028daf6b38f43e5bb14661957cad86d83a3deb7af761b835e576f20be2ac270c5
Homepage: https://gitlab.com/redhat-crypto/fedora-crypto-policies/
Description-en: unify the crypto policies used by different applications and libraries
"crypto-policies" is a utility to unify the crypto policies used by different
applications and libraries. The current implementations works by setting the
desired policy in /etc/crypto-policies/config. After this file is changed
the script 'update-crypto-policies' should be executed, and the new policies
will activate.
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The supported back ends are:
- GnuTLS
- OpenSSL
- NSS
- BIND9
- libkrb5
- OpenSSH
- Java (OpenJDK)
- libssh
- libreswan
Description-md5: 692b2d4a72ff9b7313085e7a7a0b6162