On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 13:39 +0200, Mark Phalan wrote:
...
> 
> A consequence of delivering two libcryptos is that one will have the
> FIPS_* symbols and the other will not. This makes building applications
> which support the FIPS mode problematic if they are to run with both
> libcrypto versions. They could be patched to use dlsym() but it would be
> nice to avoid such hackery.
> Is there any reason the regular non-FIPS Capable OpenSSL couldn't
> contain the FIPS_* symbols (which would always fail when called) ?

I didn't see any comment about the viability of the above. Does this
sound reasonable to the OpenSSL team? Would patches be accepted if
offered?

Thanks,

-M

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