Michael Kurecka:

> I am trying to run wpa_supplicant in FIPS mode.

Why?

> I don't think the MD5 function is even called

MD5 is part of SSLv3.

#6  0x4003e6b8 in ssl3_connect () from /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8#7
0x4004ebf4 in SSL_connect () from /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8#8  0x000526c0 in
tls_connection_handshake (ssl_ctx=<value optimized out>, conn=0x94e68,
in_data=0x970d0 "\224,@\224,@\020", in_len=0, out_len=0x94d88,
appl_data=0xbed1f218, appl_data_len=0xbed1f214) at
../src/crypto/tls_openssl.c:1792
#9  0x0004fcac in eap_peer_tls_process_helper (sm=0x8ad90, data=0x94d80,
eap_type=EAP_TYPE_PEAP, peap_version=0, id=98 'b', in_data=0x0,
in_len=537439632, out_data=0xbed1f264) at
../src/eap_peer/eap_tls_common.c:463

You need to disable SSLv3 if you want to use FIPS mode. SSLv3 relies on MD5
for some of its security properties, and that's a no-no in FIPS mode.

DS


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