On Oct 5, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
> 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.

Thank you everyone for the comments so far.

What is the 2.0 test module?  Does it mean to build openssl-fips-1.2.tar.gz?

Thanks,

Bill

> 
> Steve.
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