Re: [openssl-users] Enforcing FIPS via Cipher Suites Declaration

2016-02-04 Thread Lesley Kimmel
Thanks for the input, all. Those are basically the responses I was expecting, I just wanted to see it in writing as I couldn't find a clear answer during a short internet search. On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2016, Thomas Francis, Jr. wrote: > > > >

Re: [openssl-users] Enforcing FIPS via Cipher Suites Declaration

2016-02-04 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016, Thomas Francis, Jr. wrote: > > AFAIK, you could limit it to the appropriate cipher suites, but be aware > that FIPS 140 is all about proving that only certain known and tested > [implementations of] algorithms are used. It???s unlikely that another > version of OpenSSL woul

Re: [openssl-users] Enforcing FIPS via Cipher Suites Declaration

2016-02-04 Thread Thomas Francis, Jr.
> On Feb 4, 2016, at 10:13 AM, Lesley Kimmel wrote: > > All; > > I'm working with PosgreSQL in a DoD environment and am supposed to enforce > FIPS operation. PostgreSQL doesn't perform a call to FIP_mode_set() but does > provide a configuration item 'ssl_ciphers'. Is there more to FIPS_mode th

Re: [openssl-users] Enforcing FIPS via Cipher Suites Declaration

2016-02-04 Thread Steve Marquess
On 02/04/2016 10:13 AM, Lesley Kimmel wrote: > All; > > I'm working with PosgreSQL in a DoD environment and am supposed to > enforce FIPS operation. PostgreSQL doesn't perform a call to > FIP_mode_set() but does provide a configuration item 'ssl_ciphers'. Is > there more to FIPS_mode than I am awa

[openssl-users] Enforcing FIPS via Cipher Suites Declaration

2016-02-04 Thread Lesley Kimmel
All; I'm working with PosgreSQL in a DoD environment and am supposed to enforce FIPS operation. PostgreSQL doesn't perform a call to FIP_mode_set() but does provide a configuration item 'ssl_ciphers'. Is there more to FIPS_mode than I am aware of or would it be functionally equivalent to simply se