<div dir="ltr"><div>I believe the relevant standard is described in the Implementation Guidance for FIPS 140-2: <a href="https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/documents/fips140-2/fips1402ig.pdf">https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/documents/fips140-2/fips1402ig.pdf</a> (see IG 9.11 beginning on page 179). I searched briefly for similar text in FIPS 140-3 IG but didn't see anything relevant.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Tom.III<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 3:31 PM Dr Paul Dale <<a href="mailto:pauli@openssl.org">pauli@openssl.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Yes, this has to do with the FIPS standards. I forget which
standard it is but the self tests are mandated to be run on each
device independently.<br>
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The fipsinstall process runs the self tests before generating the
configuration file. If the self tests fail, the module doesn't
install. Copying the configuration file across avoids the self
tests and therefore isn't compliant.<br>
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<div>On 15/2/22 02:25, Richard Dymond wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-size:small">Probably a
dumb question, but why must the FIPS module configuration file
for OpenSSL 3.0 be generated on every machine that it is to be
used on (i.e. must not be copied from one machine to another)?</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">I just ran
'openssl fipsinstall' on two different machines with the same
FIPS module and it produced exactly the same output each time,
so presumably the reason has nothing to do with the config
file being unique to the machine.</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">Does it have
something to do with the FIPS standard itself?</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">Richard<br>
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