RE: Cryptographic operations in FIPS-compliant OpenSSL

2009-09-14 Thread David Schwartz
JCA wrote: >One of my requirements is to use a FIPS-compliant cryptographic > module, and OpenSSL is an obvious choice. Now I understand that, when > operating in FIPS-compliant mode, all the cryptographic operations in > OpenSSL are completed atomically. In some cases, this could be a > prob

Cryptographic operations in FIPS-compliant OpenSSL

2009-09-14 Thread JCA
One of my requirements is to use a FIPS-compliant cryptographic module, and OpenSSL is an obvious choice. Now I understand that, when operating in FIPS-compliant mode, all the cryptographic operations in OpenSSL are completed atomically. In some cases, this could be a problem. For example, if on