On Fri, May 30, 2008, Mathias Brossard wrote:

> Kyle Hamilton wrote:
>> The FIPS certification process is a black box.  Literally, it will be
>> complete when it will be complete, and we can't know until it goes
>> into final recommendation phase (which is usually the last step before
>> NIST grants the certification).
>
> I've seen on the OpenSSL files with URLs like
> ftp://ftp.openssl.org/snapshot/openssl-0.9.8-fips-test-SNAP-<YYYY><MM><DD>.tar.gz
> I was wondering if those are snapshots of the future FIPS 1.2 ?
>
> 

The version currently under test is essentially:

ftp://ftp.openssl.org/snapshot/openssl-fips-test-1.2.0.tar.gz

Though there are no guarantees it wont change before validation is finalised.

The snapshots such as:

ftp://ftp.openssl.org/snapshot/openssl-0.9.8-stable-SNAP-20080526.tar.gz

are based on more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8. They can be linked against
the 1.2 module (when available) in a similar way to 0.9.7 and the 1.1.2 module.

Steve.
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