Re: OpenSSL FIPS AES Anomaly

2007-10-02 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007, Bill Colvin wrote: > > One might expect that aes-256-cbc would operate the same regardless of > whether it is FIPS mode or not. Am I missing something here? > > You aren't just using aes-256-cbc you are also using a key derivation algorithm that converts the password in

OpenSSL FIPS AES Anomaly

2007-10-01 Thread Bill Colvin
I have OpenSSL-fips-1.1.1 and OpenSSL-0.9.7m built on a linux system according to the guides. Now consider the following simple test script: #!/bin/bash openssl aes-256-cbc -e -in a -out a.nofips -k 'abcdefghijk' export OPENSSL_FIPS=1 openssl aes-256-cbc -e -in a -out a.fips -k 'abcde