On 01/08/2012 11:11 PM, Paul Suhler wrote: > Hi, all. > > What is the file openssl-fips-2.0rc2.tar.gz.1, which is about an hour newer > than the one listed below?
It is not relevant ... an attempt to deal with a Microsoft Windows issue. We have since identified a better work-around that does not involve changes to the module code. Since we're probably going to be asked, here's the issue: we found that the Windows based compilations would occasionally fail when attempting to perform successive operations on files. For instance, 1) link executable, 2) run executable, 3) delete executable, 4) (re)link executable would fail at step 4 even though the file did not exist (previous unlink was successful). We traced the problem to the bundled Windows Defender service; stopping or replacing that avoids the problem. Other programs (anti-virus or other, such as Explorer) may also cause similar problems. For the formal FIPS 140-2 testing we build a fresh Windows image from scratch and install nothing but the essential build software (in this case MSVC++, perl, nasm, and a handful of GnuWin32 utilities). Now we have a new step, stop the Windows Defender service and/or install Windows Security Essentials as that which does not appear to trigger this problem. -Steve M. -- Steve Marquess OpenSSL Software Foundation, Inc. 1829 Mount Ephraim Road Adamstown, MD 21710 USA +1 877 673 6775 s/b +1 301 874 2571 direct marqu...@opensslfoundation.com ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
