On Wed, Oct 05, 2011, Bill Durant wrote:

> 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?
> 

For the upcoming 2.0 validation test snapshots are available. You can see
them at: ftp://ftp.openssl.org/snapshot/ 

Steve.
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Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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