Re: [openssl-dev] FIPS validation

2016-09-08 Thread Steve Marquess
On 09/07/2016 12:49 AM, Leon Brits wrote: > Hi SteveM, > > Yes we are copycats - thanks for making it possible. > > I was also amazed when I received the email very close to our final > source code review and operational testing phase. > > I've used the fips_algv tests suite to have the

Re: [openssl-dev] FIPS validation

2016-09-06 Thread Leon Brits
r time LJB > -Original Message- > From: openssl-dev [mailto:openssl-dev-boun...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of > Steve Marquess > Sent: 05 September 2016 01:33 PM > To: openssl-dev@openssl.org > Subject: Re: [openssl-dev] FIPS validation > > On 09/05/2016 02:09 AM, Leon Br

Re: [openssl-dev] FIPS validation

2016-09-05 Thread Steve Marquess
On 09/05/2016 02:09 AM, Leon Brits wrote: > The FIPS validation company says: > > > > “The tests I am most interested in are the failure cases, where you > induce an error in each of the power-on self-tests and conditional tests > (i.e, continuous RNG test, pairwise consistency test).” > >

[openssl-dev] FIPS validation

2016-09-05 Thread Leon Brits
The FIPS validation company says: "The tests I am most interested in are the failure cases, where you induce an error in each of the power-on self-tests and conditional tests (i.e, continuous RNG test, pairwise consistency test)." Can anybody tell me how I can induce these errors? I do run