Red Hat's Fedora 21 brimming with security, crypto upgrades

Fedora 21, the next version of Red Hat's Fedora distribution of Linux, just received a slew of new feature approvals courtesy of the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee.

A Number Of Fedora 21 Features Were Just Approved

Among the Fedora 21 changes that were approved at today's FESCo meeting for Fedora 21 features include:

- Migrating cron jobs to native systemd timer units and changing Fedora package dependencies that currently depend on crontab.

- A system-wide crypto policy of unifying cryptography policies by different applications/libraries so there is a consistent security level for all applications running on a Fedora system.

- Access control for PC/SC smart cards to prevent unauthorized access to data on smart cards and also from unauthorized erasing of smart cards or even communicating with the smart card's firmware.

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