Chapter 4. Disabling FIPS mode in Red Hat build of OpenJDK 11.0.29 on RHEL 8.2

Users of Red Hat build of OpenJDK 11.0.29 on RHEL 8.2 need to be aware that FIPS mode might become automatically enabled in OpenJDK when running your system in FIPS mode. On RHEL 8.2, the com.redhat.fips property was set to false by default. However, use of the same build as later RHEL versions means that the com.redhat.fips property is switched to true by default.

When using Red Hat build of OpenJDK 11.0.29 on RHEL 8.2, if you want to retain the old default behavior where OpenJDK’s FIPS mode was disabled, you must use the ‑Dcom.redhat.fips=false option.