Re: FIPS vs ECDSA

2011-09-16 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011, Kenneth Goldman wrote: > I have a preinstalled Linux OpenSSL package, where "openssl version" says > OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips 29 Mar 2010. > That is a non-standard FIPS version specific to some Linux distros. You should ask in the distro specific mailing lists. > I have the dev

FIPS vs ECDSA

2011-09-16 Thread Kenneth Goldman
I have a preinstalled Linux OpenSSL package, where "openssl version" says OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips 29 Mar 2010. I have the development libraries, but ECDSA headers like e.g., ecdsa.h are missing. In the library, I don't see e.g., EC_KEY_new(). Is this expected? Do I have a fips build? Is ECDSA mis