[openssl-dev] FIPS compliant digital signature

[Rex Bloom]

Thank you!!  Worked perfectly and was exactly what I was missing.

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From: openssl-dev [mailto:openssl-dev-bounces at openssl.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Stephen Henson
Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 1:21 PM
To: openssl-dev at openssl.org
Subject: Re: [openssl-dev] FIPS compliant digital signature

On Wed, Feb 04, 2015, Rex Bloom wrote:

> Can someone help me understand what type of digital signature I can use for FIPS compliance.
> 
> I used this command:
> 
> openssl genrsa -aes128 -passout pass:mypassphrase -out privkey.pem 
> 2048
> 
> to generate a pem file but when I tried to load this as follows:
> 
> RSA *rkey = PEM_read_bio_RSAPrivateKey( bio, 0, 0, 
> (void*)"mypassphrase");
> 
> I receive this error
> 
> error:060A80A3:digital envelope routines:FIPS_DIGESTINIT:disabled for fips'.
> 
> Can you point to anything I am doing wrong here?
> 

This is an openssl-users question not openssl-dev.

You need to be in FIPS mode when you create the key. So if you do:

OPENSSL_FIPS=1 openssl genrsa ...

It should work.

Steve.
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