Actuall, I may have steered you wrong. It appears that OPENSSL_FIPS may
have no affect against a non-FIPS enabled OpenSSL. According to some posts
you can do 'OPENSSL_FIPS=1 openssl md5' which should return an error as md5
is not an enabled cipher in FIPS mode.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Lesley Kimmel <lesley.j.kim...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think you can run 'OPENSSL_FIPS=1 openssl ciphers -v'. I believe that
> if, FIPS is compiled in properly you should get output. Otherwise an error
> should occur.
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:41 PM, cloud force <cloud.force...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I built and installed the FIPS capable OpenSSL lib on my system, and I
>> was wondering what's the easiest way to find out whether my OpenSSL is
>> really FIPS capable or not.
>>
>> e.g. is there any way to run some openssl commands to find out, such as
>> "openssl ciphers -v", and what cipher suite should definitely not show up
>> in FIPS mode.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rich
>>
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