Re: [openssl-users] FIPS, continuous tests, and error reporting

2015-02-19 Thread dj
> Hello, > > I have some questions regarding table '6b - Conditional Tests' of the > 2.0.7 Security Policy. > > It is mentioned that there are continuous tests for stuck fault. Is > the meaning of 'continuous' a the matter of frequency ? Or are these > continuous tests ran each time an algorithm i

Re: [openssl-users] FIPS, continuous tests, and error reporting

2015-02-19 Thread jonetsu
> From: "Dr. Stephen Henson" > To: openssl-users@openssl.org > Date: 02/19/15 11:34 > Subject: Re: [openssl-users] FIPS, continuous tests, and error reporting   > The low level cipher and digest APIs cannot be used in FIPS mode: you have to > use EVP. That's quite an important point.  It br

Re: [openssl-users] FIPS, continuous tests, and error reporting

2015-02-19 Thread Steve Marquess
On 02/19/2015 11:09 AM, Salz, Rich wrote: >> For instance, any of the void DES_*_encrypt(). This cursory observation is >> also supported by a vendor application code such as: > > Ah, okay. Those functions are 'just math' They depend on no external state. > They can't fail. It's shifts and m

Re: [openssl-users] genpkey usage for openssl-1.0.1k on openSUSE-13.2

2015-02-19 Thread Earl Killian
On 2015/2/19 00:22, Dave Thompson wrote: genpkey has a standard idea, across all algorithms that have parameters (which RSA does not), to generate parameters and key(s) as separate steps with a file in between. For DSA and DH this is good; you may want to generate your own params, or you may want

Re: [openssl-users] FIPS, continuous tests, and error reporting

2015-02-19 Thread Salz, Rich
> For instance, any of the void DES_*_encrypt().  This cursory observation is > also supported by a vendor application code such as: Ah, okay. Those functions are 'just math' They depend on no external state. They can't fail. It's shifts and masking, etc. > This is basically why I'm wonderin

[openssl-users] Separate signing and encryption certificates for Thunderbird

2015-02-19 Thread Earl Killian
I wanted to switch to having separate signing and encryption certificates. I followed the outline at Stefan Holek's excellent http://pki-tutorial.readthedocs.org/en/latest/expert/index.html That is the signing cert request used keyUsage= critical,digitalSignature extendedKe

Re: [openssl-users] OpenSSL FIPS mode system integration

2015-02-19 Thread Henrik Grindal Bakken
"jone...@teksavvy.com" writes: > Hello, > > Could you please comment on the following ? Any suggestion, insight, > hint, is greatly appreciated. > > In FIPS mode, the OS, the device, must be aware of crypto errors, and > adopt a certain behaviour when one occurs. Like shutting down all > data o

Re: [openssl-users] OpenSSL FIPS mode system integration

2015-02-19 Thread jonetsu
-Original Message- > From: "Marcus Meissner" > To: openssl-users@openssl.org > Date: 02/19/15 08:07 > Subject: Re: [openssl-users] OpenSSL FIPS mode system integration > Well, the writing is that the "crypto module" must stop operating > on error.   > We solved this by calling abor

Re: [openssl-users] FIPS, continuous tests, and error reporting

2015-02-19 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015, jonetsu wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: "Salz, Rich" > > To: openssl-users@openssl.org > > Date: 02/19/15 07:43 > > Subject: Re: [openssl-users] FIPS, continuous tests, and error reporting > > > > > For that matter and in a general sense, so far I'v

Re: [openssl-users] OpenSSL FIPS mode system integration

2015-02-19 Thread Steve Marquess
On 02/19/2015 05:19 AM, jone...@teksavvy.com wrote: > ...This means that when using OpenSSL, a link must be made between > OpenSSL (or the application using it) and the OS, if only to signal > the OS of such errors. Ummm, no. The FIPS module stops functioning (i.e. doesn't perform any useful crypt

Re: [openssl-users] FIPS, continuous tests, and error reporting

2015-02-19 Thread jonetsu
-Original Message- > From: "Salz, Rich" > To: openssl-users@openssl.org > Date: 02/19/15 07:43 > Subject: Re: [openssl-users] FIPS, continuous tests, and error reporting > > > For that matter and in a general sense, so far I've seen that many > > encryption > > methods do not retu

Re: [openssl-users] genpkey usage for openssl-1.0.1k on openSUSE-13.2

2015-02-19 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015, Dave Thompson wrote: > > From: openssl-users On Behalf Of open...@lists.killian.com > > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 13:26 > > > I noticed that openssl(1) says that various things have been superseded by > > genpkey, so I tried changing my scripts to use it. It works f

Re: [openssl-users] OpenSSL FIPS mode system integration

2015-02-19 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 05:19:37AM -0500, jone...@teksavvy.com wrote: > Hello, > > Could you please comment on the following ? Any suggestion, insight, > hint, is greatly appreciated. > > In FIPS mode, the OS, the device, must be aware of crypto errors, and > adopt a certain behaviour when one o

Re: [openssl-users] FIPS, continuous tests, and error reporting

2015-02-19 Thread Salz, Rich
> For that matter and in a general sense, so far I've seen that many encryption > methods do not return any error code. How does error reporting generally > works ? Really? Which ones? ___ openssl-users mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl

[openssl-users] OpenSSL FIPS mode system integration

2015-02-19 Thread jone...@teksavvy.com
Hello, Could you please comment on the following ? Any suggestion, insight, hint, is greatly appreciated. In FIPS mode, the OS, the device, must be aware of crypto errors, and adopt a certain behaviour when one occurs. Like shutting down all data output interfaces. This means that when using O

[openssl-users] FIPS, continuous tests, and error reporting

2015-02-19 Thread jone...@teksavvy.com
Hello, I have some questions regarding table '6b - Conditional Tests' of the 2.0.7 Security Policy. It is mentioned that there are continuous tests for stuck fault. Is the meaning of 'continuous' a the matter of frequency ? Or are these continuous tests ran each time an algorithm is used ? The

Re: [openssl-users] genpkey usage for openssl-1.0.1k on openSUSE-13.2

2015-02-19 Thread Dave Thompson
> From: openssl-users On Behalf Of open...@lists.killian.com > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 13:26 > I noticed that openssl(1) says that various things have been superseded by > genpkey, so I tried changing my scripts to use it. It works fine for RSA, but the > man page is not very helpful on