Re: Prevent concurrent operator in FIPS mode

2009-08-20 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009, Carlo Milono wrote: > > > [] My Public Sector Customers seem happy with the functionality, though > not without a shock: many of their certificates were signed with MD5 (and > MD2) and our application now happily rejects them (and their CA was > self-signed with MD5, so di

Re: Prevent concurrent operator in FIPS mode

2009-08-19 Thread Kyle Hamilton
rators and it depends on the user to follow i.e. enforce no concurrent > operators elsewhere? > Thank you, > -Pandit > > From: Kyle Hamilton > To: openssl-users@openssl.org > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:41:53 PM > Subject: Re: Preve

Re: Prevent concurrent operator in FIPS mode

2009-08-19 Thread Pandit Panburana
nds on the user to follow i.e. enforce no concurrent operators elsewhere? Thank you, -Pandit From: Kyle Hamilton To: openssl-users@openssl.org Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:41:53 PM Subject: Re: Prevent concurrent operator in FIPS mode The API does n

RE: Prevent concurrent operator in FIPS mode

2009-08-19 Thread Carlo Milono
-Original Message- From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Hamilton Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:42 AM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Re: Prevent concurrent operator in FIPS mode The API does not prevent concurrent

Re: Prevent concurrent operator in FIPS mode

2009-08-19 Thread Kyle Hamilton
The API does not prevent concurrent operators. The guidance from the CMVP is that an application (even if operated by a webserver on behalf of someone else) is an operator for purposes of determining compliance with that restriction. Of course, the CMVP seems to want to reduce the functionality o