On Thu, Jul 02, 2009, Peter Lin wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I noticed that md5 is used as the digest algo in PEM, which is not allowed
> for FIPS mode.
> 
> Is there any way change it to a FIPS valid method (e.g. sha1) ? Or is there
> any other format to store a RSA private key in OpenSSL FIPS mode?
> 

PKCS#8 format using SHA1 is transparently used in FIPS mode.

Steve.
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