Re: [openssl-users] RSA key generation in FIPS mode

2015-07-29 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015, Randy Steck wrote: > Thus, it appears that there is a function in the FIPS API that allows > for the creation of RSA keys in a non-approved manner. > > Am I missing something? Is this by design, or is it a bug? > Yes you're right it uses the unapproved keygen algorithm by

[openssl-users] RSA key generation in FIPS mode

2015-07-28 Thread Randy Steck
I posted this to openssl-dev, but didn't get a reply. Perhaps it's more appropriate here. In the FIPS Security Policy there are listed two functions for generating RSA keys: FIPS_rsa_generate_key_ex() (renamed from RSA_generate_key_ex()) and FIPS_rsa_x931_generate_key_ex() (renamed from R