[openssl-users] How to enable FIPS mode by default of the OpenSSL FIPS modules

2015-09-15 Thread security veteran
Thanks Steve. If we use Apache and Python as examples, does that mean both of them need to invoke OPENSSL_Config() in order to enable the FIPS mode? And if that's the case, how do we make them invoke OPENSSL_Config() API? Also regarding the openssl.cfg changes mentioned in the User Guide, what do

Re: [openssl-users] How to enable FIPS mode by default of the OpenSSL FIPS modules

2015-09-14 Thread Steve Marquess
On 09/14/2015 05:21 PM, security veteran wrote: > I asked this question from a different thread, but thought it may be the > best to start a new thread to discuss this question since it sounds like > a big deal to me. > > I've built an openssl library with the FIPS objects modules, and I was > tes

[openssl-users] How to enable FIPS mode by default of the OpenSSL FIPS modules

2015-09-14 Thread security veteran
I asked this question from a different thread, but thought it may be the best to start a new thread to discuss this question since it sounds like a big deal to me. I've built an openssl library with the FIPS objects modules, and I was testing the new lib files by replacing the original library fil