[openssl-users] Fwd: CAVP fips_rsastest.c not producing the correct signature?

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 12:15 AM, Swetha Hariharan
<swethahariharan1810 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I am trying test the rsa 186-2 openssl fips module 2.0.16 implementation
> using the NIST Testvectors. Using the  fips_rsastest.c file the
> FIPS_rsa_x931_generate_key_ex(rsa, keylen, bn_e, NULL) function called to
> generate the modulus n as the output and taking modulus size as the input
> i,e [mod=1024]. Then this modulus along with the appropriate hash function
> and message is passed to FIPS_rsa_sign(rsa, Msg, Msglen, dgst, pad_mode,
> Saltlen, NULL,sigbuf, (unsigned int *)&siglen) to obtain the signature as
> the output.
> But each time i execute the c code it generates different modulus n. Why is
> output changing after every execution. What am i doing wrong? I am facing
> the same problem with DSA parameter generation also. It will help me.

Key generation for RSA and DSA use pairwise consistency checks, not
known answer tests.

Jeff