On Wed, Jul 08, 2009, tensy joseph wrote:

> Thanks Stephan..
> 
> Was using key generated outside the FIPS mode . Is there any way , i can use
>  digest as  sha1 when generating the key outside the FIPS mode so that same
> key can be used in FIPS mode and non FIPS mode ?
> 

A key generated inside FIPS mode should work straight away outside FIPS mode.
It's the other way round that isn't directly possible.

I mentioned the pkcs8 command can be used to convert keys earlier in this
thread. 

Technically though that's a violation of the security policy. 

Steve.
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