On Wed March 25 2009, Uma G. Nayak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ok. I ran the fips_test_suite.exe and checked for the system information. I 
> have 2 situations.
>

You have had a reply for your #1 case - you should be able to make progress on 
that one.

Your #2 case - you are correct, a P-IV does SSE2 very well - - this one is a 
head scratcher.
Better just consider this one an independent problem to be solved after dealing 
with #1.

Mike 
> 1. One of the system does not support FIPS mode operation. It's an AMD Athlon 
> XP which does not support SSE2. Hence I built Openssl dlls using no-sse2 
> flag. Even after using these new dlls I am not able to start my server.
> 
> I want to know whether the steps I followed for building Openssl are proper. 
> Details: I am using Openssl-fips-1.2 and Openssl-0.9.8j modules.
> 
> Step I for building Openssl-fips-1.2:
> 
> perl Configure VC-WIN32 no-sse2
> vcvars32.bat
> ms\do_fips
> 
> Step II for building Openssl-0.9.8j:
> 
> perl Configure VC-WIN32 no-asm fips --with-fipslibdir= <path_of dlls got from 
> previous step>
> ms\do_ms
> vcvars32.bat
> nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak
> 
> Is this the right way to build? If yes, what could be wrong that the server 
> is still not starting?
> 
> 2. On the second machine, which is a Pentium 4 D, fips_test_suite showed all 
> successful tests. System configuration information did not give any hint on 
> SSE2 support. But Pentium 4 D supports SSE2 and above. Still why server is 
> not able to start?
> 
> Can you guys out there see anything? Please tell me.
> 
> Regards,
> Uma
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org 
> [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Michael S. Zick
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:27 PM
> To: openssl-users@openssl.org
> Subject: Re: Server crash while starting service
> 
> On Mon March 23 2009, Uma G. Nayak wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > fips_test_suite executable runs just fine on these machines. All its tests 
> > are successful.
> >
> > How to check for SSE2 support on these machines? I have no clue about it.
> >
> 
> Some OS make it easy, others make it hard(er) - - -
> 
> First, make a list of processor make/model shown by whatever system info 
> utility you have;
> 
> Are they the same, different?  If different, any pattern with the machines 
> that don't work?
> If so, check with the published processor information, see if SSE2 is 
> specifically mentioned.
> 
> Mike
> > Regards,
> > Uma
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org 
> > [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Stephen Henson
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 8:58 PM
> > To: openssl-users@openssl.org
> > Subject: Re: Server crash while starting service
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009, Uma G. Nayak wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > We have upgraded Openssl in our application to Openssl-fips-1.2 along 
> > > with Openssl-0.9.8j, so that we can run the server (Apache webserver) in 
> > > FIPS mode. After the changes, the server works fine in FIPS mode, on most 
> > > of the systems, except for these two machines, where the server refuses 
> > > to start when launched from services.msc. The error it gives is: "Error 
> > > 1053, Failed to launch the application in a timely fashion" or sometimes: 
> > > "Could not start the requested service. Error code sytem-specific 
> > > errorcode - 1".
> > >
> > > When I try to run the application in the debug environment, it gives the 
> > > following error:
> > >
> > > FIPS_R_UNSUPPORTED_PLATFORM "unsupported platform". (Indicating that the 
> > > validity of the digest test is unknown for the current platform.)
> > >
> > > Could this be the same error condition causing the server crash in 
> > > release build. We have no way to find the cause in release build, because 
> > > no log files are created by the time the server stops loading itself.
> > >
> > > Note: The same application works fine, if I run it in NON-FIPS mode.
> > >
> > > All the machines are 32 bits machines, Windows XP, RAM 1 or 2 GB. Can 
> > > anyone let me know, why we are facing this problem and/or the workaround 
> > > for this?
> > >
> > > We are grateful for any help provided.
> > >
> >
> > Try running the fips_test_suite executable on the failing machines.
> >
> > The failing ones aren't old machines not supporting SSE2 are they? If so you
> > can still run the slower version with assembly language support, see user
> > guide for details of how to build it.
> >
> > Steve.
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