Re: FIPS linked as a shared library

2010-02-15 Thread Pandit Panburana
I have not seen an answer to this mail. Wouldn't applying "PIC" accomplish the same thing? Thank you, -Pandit From: William A. Rowe Jr. To: openssl-users@openssl.org Cc: Kyle Hamilton Sent: Mon, January 18, 2010 6:20:11 PM Subject: Re: F

RE: FIPS linked as a shared library

2010-01-20 Thread Bancroft, Matthew
nd mips. Has anyone created and used a shared library? -Matt Bancroft > -Original Message- > From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org > [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Hamilton > Sent: 18 January 2010 20:43 > To: openssl-users > Subject: Re: FI

Re: FIPS linked as a shared library

2010-01-18 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 1/18/2010 2:42 PM, Kyle Hamilton wrote: > The way that the FIPS module verifies its signature is that it forces > itself to load (via a pre-main() section) and then calculate the > checksum of the image in-core. Probably the reason why you're running > into issues is because of the fixup step o

Re: FIPS linked as a shared library

2010-01-18 Thread Kyle Hamilton
The way that the FIPS module verifies its signature is that it forces itself to load (via a pre-main() section) and then calculate the checksum of the image in-core. Probably the reason why you're running into issues is because of the fixup step of the dynamic linker. If you expect to use FIPS, y