Will my application be FIPS 140-2 Certified under following conditions?

Jakob Bohm jb-openssl at wisemo.com
Mon Jul 8 09:18:35 UTC 2019


On 08/07/2019 10:12, Dr Paul Dale wrote:
> I have to disagree with the “decision not to make a FIPS module for 
> the current 1.1.x series” comment.  Technically, this is true.  More 
> practically, 3.0 is intended to be source compatible with 1.1.x.  Thus 
> far, nothing should be broken in this respect.
>
The key word is "intended".

> If support for 1.0.2 is required beyond the end of this year, it is 
> available: https://www.openssl.org/support/contracts.html
>
I am unsure if this is an affordable route for all affected users
and distributions (especially non-profit OS distributions).

>
> I’d also be interested to know what is wrong with the policy page?
>

Only that it states the policy of stopping 1.0.2 support at end of
2019, which would be fine if a FIPS-capable replacement had been
ready by now (as is fortunately the case for non-FIPS).

Enjoy

Jakob
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