> -----Original Message----- > From: Brandon Lo <b...@iol.unh.edu> > Sent: Friday, December 3, 2021 6:45 PM > To: Mcnamara, John <john.mcnam...@intel.com> > Cc: Zhang, Roy Fan <roy.fan.zh...@intel.com>; dev <dev@dpdk.org>; > Kovacevic, Marko <marko.kovace...@intel.com> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Question Regarding FIPS Validation in DPDK > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 9:45 AM Mcnamara, John <john.mcnam...@intel.com> > wrote: > > > At the time the dpdk-fips_validation tool was written the test > > > vectors weren't available in JSON format, and, to the best of my > > > knowledge, there was a format specification (which is why there is > > > different parsing for different algorithms). We (the community) > > > should probably move to the JSON format. Adding Fan Zhang since I > > > think this was discussion in the community previously. > > > > Sorry I meant to say " to the best of my knowledge, there *wasn't* a > format specification" available. > > > > John > > Should we plan to move away from the old format to only use the new JSON > format going forward? I believe the file format "CAVS 21.0" is fully > deprecated and NIST does not produce any new files in that format.
Yes, we should drop support for the older formats, which were inconsistent and hard to deal with. I don't know if there are any deprecation implications, we can look into that. John
