Blog post

[Matt Caswell]

On 17/06/2021 18:35, Ethan Rahn wrote:
> Hello Matt,
> 
> Love the blog post, and of course a hearty thanks to everyone who worked 
> on the project to get it to this point.
> 
> Is the plan still to continue with the FIPS 140-2 validation instead of 
> 140-3? Apologies for the lack of a first party source but 
> https://www.leidos.com/insights/fips-140-and-common-criteria-industry-updates-march-2020 
> <https://www.leidos.com/insights/fips-140-and-common-criteria-industry-updates-march-2020> 
> lists Sept 22, 2021 as the last day for FIPS 140-2 submissions. Is 
> OpenSSL 3.0 going to be submitted by then?

Yes we plan to submit a 140-2 validation by the September deadline.

Matt


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ethan
> 
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 06:43 Matt Caswell <matt at openssl.org 
> <mailto:matt at openssl.org>> wrote:
> 
>     For anyone interested I've written a blog post to accompany the 3.0
>     beta
>     1 release. You can read it here:
> 
>     https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2021/06/17/OpenSSL3.0ReleaseCandidate/
>     <https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2021/06/17/OpenSSL3.0ReleaseCandidate/>
> 
>     Matt
>