Thanks! That is hery helpful.

BTW - CM stands for "cryptographic module".

On Monday, January 27, 2020 at 4:12:19 PM UTC-5, Nicolas Noble wrote:
>
> It highly depends on how you're building gRPC and / or getting your 
> binaries.
>
> If you're building through CMake (which I guess is what your "CM" means, 
> maybe?), then you can specify what you are doing exactly:
>
> https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/cmake/ssl.cmake
>
> When using cmake, you can either build BoringSSL from a cmake module, or 
> import OpenSSL as a package, using the cmake variable "gRPC_SSL_PROVIDER". 
> That file should be sort of self-documenting, but there is a few more info 
> here: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/ssl-performance.md
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 11:10 AM Bill Fanelli <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to determine if gRPD supports FIPS 140 validated encryption. 
>> For our organization, as long as the underlying cryptographic modules (CMs) 
>> are FIPS 140 validated, then we are good to go. From my (brief) survey of 
>> the GitHub site, it appears that gRPC has BoringSSL CM embedded. BoringSSL 
>> is FIPS validated. 
>>
>> Question: Can anyone point me to where the use of BoringSSL is 
>> documented? Hopefully I will be able to determine how the BoringSSL CM is 
>> used (or can be configured to be used).
>>
>> All other insights on this topic also welcome.
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