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If RHEL 9 installed Hide DES option #6260

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If Cacti is deployed on RHEL9+ we should hide the DES option as support has been removed
at the OS level by openssl/Redhat and I suspect Rocky may be the same

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.0_release_notes/deprecated_functionality

OpenSSL deprecates MD2, MD4, MDC2, Whirlpool, RIPEMD160, Blowfish, CAST, DES, IDEA, RC2, RC4, RC5, SEED, and PBKDF1

The OpenSSL project has deprecated a set of cryptographic algorithms because they are insecure, uncommonly used, or both. Red Hat also discourages the use of those algorithms, and RHEL 9 provides them for migrating encrypted data to use new algorithms. Users must not depend on those algorithms for the security of their systems.

The implementations of the following algorithms have been moved to the legacy provider in OpenSSL: MD2, MD4, MDC2, Whirlpool, RIPEMD160, Blowfish, CAST, DES, IDEA, RC2, RC4, RC5, SEED, and PBKDF1.

See the /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf configuration file for instructions on how to load the legacy provider and enable support for the deprecated algorithms.

([BZ#1975836](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975836))

Although netsnmp will show the option to use DES the command will fail
Cacti already provides a message that DES is not supported on this system

If the install is a Migration from RHEL 8 to 9 and the install was already configured for DES
Log in cacti log advising support has been removed

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