On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Carlos mario Ospina Anzola wrote:
> Anybody knows if openssl is FIPS 140-2 compliant?
>
> I want to use it at work, but the law request a cryptographic module that
> should be FIPS 140-2 compliant.
OpenSSL is free software in development, and to obtain a FIPS validation,
someone has to pay a lot of $$.
So no, OpenSSL is not FIPS xxx-yyy compliant, whatever xxx and yyy are.
You can pay to let OpenSSL go through the process of FIPS validation, if
you want...
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