Re: FIPS request for future OpenSSL releases

2007-11-29 Thread Brendan Simon
It's probably a combination of my misunderstanding and not wording things correctly :-/ Let's say I want to use the function RSA_X931_generate_key(). Currently it is surround by an #ifdef OPENSSL_FIPS conditional. Therefore with the current build system I MUST specify the -fips option to obt

Re: FIPS request for future OpenSSL releases

2007-11-29 Thread PS
You are contradicting yourself. If you link against the openssl-fips-1.1.1library, and are in FIPS_mode, then you have FIPS functionality. If you are not in FIPS mode, then the fips library trivially behaves as the traditional openssl (with all functionalities). The former is called FIPS-validated