AW: AES-cipher offload to engine in openssl-fips

Dr. Matthias St. Pierre Matthias.St.Pierre at ncp-e.com
Wed Feb 27 23:51:24 UTC 2019


> Uhm, I'm confused. I thought we were talking about 3.0?

Well, the original post started at FIPS 2.0:

  > I am using openssl-fips-2.0.16 and openssl-1.0.2e.
  https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-users/2019-February/009919.html

But it seems like the discussion in the thread has drifted a little towards the FIPS 3.0 future,
which explains our mutual confusion. For that reason it is even more important that we don't
use legacy terms like "FIPS capable" in the context of FIPS 3.0 and stick to "FIPS Providers"
(or whatever correct new terms are; I'm currently not 100% up-to-date) instead.

Matthias



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