On Thu, Mar 26, 2009, Uma G. Nayak wrote:

> Still no luck :(. Is it that FIPS mode doesnt work on AMD processors? In the
> Security Policy pdf at
> https://www.openssl.org/docs/fips/SecurityPolicy-1.2.pdf 8 platforms on
> which the Module was tested are listed:
> 
> U1 Linux x86 no-asm Linux.2.6.18_i686_gcc-4.1.2 (OpenSuSE 10.2) no-asm U2
> Linux x86-64 no-asm Linux.2.6.20_x86-64_gcc-4.1.2 (OpenSuSE 10.2) U3 Linux
> x86 asm Linux.2.6.18_i686_gcc-4.1.2 (OpenSuSE 10.2) U4 Linux x86-64 asm
> Linux.2.6.20_x86-64_gcc-4.1.2 (OpenSuSE 10.2) W1 Windows x86 no-asm
> WinXP.SP2_i386_MSVC.8.0 no-asm W2 Windows x64 no-asm
> WinXP.SP2_x86-64_MSVC.8.0 no-asm W3 Windows x86 asm WinXP.SP2_i386_MSVC.8.0
> NASM, SSE2 W4 Windows x64 asm WinXP.SP2_x86-64_MSVC.8.0
> 
> Does this mean that this module works only on Pentium platforms? What if i
> want to run an application in FIPS mode on a say, AMD machine without SSE2
> support? Or this 'SSE2 support' ends at lower Pentium machines?
> 

Did you use the correct command to build the validated tarball i.e.:

ms\fo_fips no-asm

What happens when you do.

out32dll\fips_test_suite

afterwards? I don't have a non-sse2 WIN32 platform to test on.

Steve.
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