That's Right, We're willing to use OPENCA as our certification software.

My company is the first Certification Authority under the colombian law. An
one of the law requirement is that the cryptographic module compliants with
fips 140.


Ing. Carlos Mario Ospina Anzola
Administrador del Sistema
Oficial de Seguridad
CERTICAMARA S.A.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Burgoyne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: FIPS 140


>
> I believe (as this question has been asked before) that FIPS-140 is also
> machine/OS specific and would have to performed for every new
> version. The fact is, FIPS-140 compliance as it stands now makes little
> sense for openssl. It is really proving to be a challenege for a company i
> know developing a Java based product.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Erwann ABALEA wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Carlos mario Ospina Anzola wrote:
> >
> > > Anybody knows if openssl is FIPS 140-2 compliant?
> > >
> > > I want to use it at work, but the law request a cryptographic module
that
> > > should be FIPS 140-2 compliant.
> >
> > OpenSSL is free software in development, and to obtain a FIPS
validation,
> > someone has to pay a lot of $$.
> >
> > So no, OpenSSL is not FIPS xxx-yyy compliant, whatever xxx and yyy are.
> >
> > You can pay to let OpenSSL go through the process of FIPS validation, if
> > you want...
> >
> > --
> > Erwann ABALEA
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > RSA PGP Key ID: 0x2D0EABD5
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