On Tue, Oct 04, 2011, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote:

> On 10/4/2011 10:45 PM, Bill Durant wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone know how to produce a FIPS-capable OpenSSL that works on 
> > Windows NT?
> 
> It's likely not possible...
> 
> > But when I run it under Windows NT, I get the following run-time error:
> > 
> >     "The procedure entry point Module32NextW could not be located in the 
> > dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll"  
> 
> If you use the equivalent of nm against the fipscanister.lib, I'd expect
> you'll find the binding there.
> 
> I see no reason the team would accommodate this in OpenSSL/FIPS 2.0, though.
> Support for Windows NT 4.xx ended on December 31, 2004.  Support for Windows
> 2000 ended on July 13, 2010.  So updating "security" or cryptographic software
> validation for such systems is something of an oxymoron.

I'd suggest the OP try to build the 2.0 test module and run fips_test_suite on
NT as it may work. A lot of the platform specific code has been removed from
the 2.0 module design.

Steve.
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