Re: FIPS compliance question regarding openssl distributions

2011-03-10 Thread Alexander Sack
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Dr. Stephen Henson st...@openssl.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2011, Kyle Hamilton wrote: In order to achieve compliance, you must follow the instructions in the Security Policy to the letter. This means that you must: - download and read the security policy -

Re: FIPS compliance question regarding openssl distributions

2011-03-08 Thread Steve Marquess
Kyle Hamilton wrote: ... Note that compliance cannot be truly determined programmatically. So, it's also a good idea to generate multiple hashes (sha-1, sha-256, ripemd160, etc) over the fipscanister and associated files, print them out, and commit to them (physically sign them) as a

Re: FIPS compliance question regarding openssl distributions

2011-03-08 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011, Kyle Hamilton wrote: In order to achieve compliance, you must follow the instructions in the Security Policy to the letter. This means that you must: - download and read the security policy - download the openssl-fips-1.2.0.tar.gz - verify its integrity according to

Re: FIPS compliance question regarding openssl distributions

2011-03-07 Thread Kyle Hamilton
In order to achieve compliance, you must follow the instructions in the Security Policy to the letter. This means that you must: - download and read the security policy - download the openssl-fips-1.2.0.tar.gz - verify its integrity according to the security policy - follow the precise

Re: FIPS compliance question regarding openssl distributions

2011-03-06 Thread Tim Hudson
In the example of building the openssl FIPS *capable* distribution, it seems one should take the distribution from the official openssl.org/source website and validate it using PGP. However, FreeBSD ships openssl distribution within its source tree. You must follow the instructions contained

Re: FIPS compliance question regarding openssl distributions

2011-03-06 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 3/6/2011 3:48 PM, Tim Hudson wrote: In the example of building the openssl FIPS *capable* distribution, it seems one should take the distribution from the official openssl.org/source website and validate it using PGP. However, FreeBSD ships openssl distribution within its source tree.

FIPS compliance question regarding openssl distributions

2011-03-03 Thread Alexander Sack
Hello openssl-users: I asked on the FreeBSD security list but perhaps this one is more apropos. Our company has been tasked to ship a FIPS compliant version of openssl on top of our FreeBSD based product. I am confused on what distribution I am allowed to use to create a FIPS compliant release.