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> I realize that fips_enabled is only for crazy people, but it's exactly
> code like this that limits it to only crazy people. Is there some
> *reason* for this?

Presumably its so a typical server with reboot on panic will reboot so
the attacker can hide the attempt better ;-)

Alan

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