Ben Laurie <[email protected]> writes: >On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Peter Gutmann <[email protected]> >wrote: >> Ben Laurie <[email protected]> writes: >> >>>Apparently you think the best way to get a secure platform is to apply >>>pressure through pointless security standards. >> >> I think that's a bit of an extreme comment on FIPS 140. For one thing it >> makes for a great measure of how desperate a vendor is to get onto the US >> government procurement gravy train, so it does have some value. > >How can it be a great measure of that when OpenSSL has FIPS 140?
It's a perfect measure, it shows how desperate some vendors were to sell OpenSSL (or OpenSSL-using products) to the USG. Peter. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
