On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 14:59 +0530, Haridharan wrote:
> I built OpenSSL 0.9.7j with FIPS complaint in hp-ux IA64 architecture.
> 
> For OpenSSL-fips-1.0.tar.gz, built options used is
> 
> * ./Configure fips hpux64-ia64-cc

Not that according to the security policy, the only command allowed for
configuring in FIPS mode is "./config fips".  No other options may be
specified on the command line.  As I understand it, if you do not
configure it this way then the built module would not be considered FIPS
validated.

See section C.1 of the OpenSSL FIPS 140-2 Security Policy
( http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/140-1/140sp/140sp642.pdf )


Troy


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