xxiao,

Are you sure you can't modify that? My understanding of FIPS mode is that
you cannot modify the FIPS code canister, which entropy sources are not a
part of.

Cheers,

Ethan

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:08 AM, xxiao8 <xxi...@fosiao.com> wrote:

> in e_os.h I saw
> ======
> #ifndef DEVRANDOM
>
> /* set this to a comma-separated list of 'random' device files to try out.
>
> * My default, we will try to read at least one of these files */
>
> #define DEVRANDOM "/dev/urandom","/dev/random","/dev/srandom"
>
> # endif
> ======
> this basically sets /dev/urandom as the default which really is not
> FIPS-friendly, is there a way to override this during compilation to set
> the default to /dev/random instead? I'm not supposed to modify the source
> code as it will invalidate openssl-FIPS certificate.
>
> Thanks,
> xxiao
>
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