On Sat, Sep 25, 2010, Vivek Madani wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What are the conditions when power-on self tests may fail. We have an
> application using OpenSSL in FIPS mode and the power on self test has
> always succeeded. However, today on one of the virtual machines the
> test failed. What could have possibly lead to this failure? Any ideas?
> 

If the test worked before then the most likely cause is that the binary got
corrupted somehow and this resulted in the integrity test failing. If you log
the error produced it should give you more information.

Steve.
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Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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