On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 16:11:40 -0500, Steve Marquess wrote: > On 04/06/2011 04:03 PM, Roumen Petrov wrote: > > Steve Marquess wrote: > >> The ongoing effort to obtain a new FIPS 140-2 validation for an OpenSSL > >> based cryptographic module has committed enough source code to > >> permit general review and feedback. If you have an interest in this > >> upcoming validated module please feel free to examine the current > >> results > >> in CVS HEAD (see http://www.openssl.org/source/repos.html). > >> [SNIP] > >> > >> -Steve M. > >> > > > > May be is good to be documented that fips-2.0 module require sse2. As > > I understand no-asm build is not in the validation list yet as > > work-around for old i?386 processors. > > Correct, we have no sponsors yet for any "no-asm" builds, and I don't > expect to get any. It's not to late to sign additional platform > sponsors, though (hint, hint). > > -Steve M. >
To add to Steve's hint, from my perspective it would certainly be nice to see a sponsor step up for a *nix platform using the AES-NI instructions. It would seem to be a reasonable investment for one of the major OS distributors. But that is just my opinion. -- Iain Morgan "The views expressed above do not necessarily reflect those of the Federal government or any of its agencies." ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
