On Wed, May 30, 2012, Brewster, Scott wrote: > > I am not sure how I should interpret this - do I expand the 0.9.8w tar > file into the same directory as were I did the openssl-fips? Do I just > expand 0.9.8w.tar into its own directory and proceed with the config > fips, make and make install steps (this is what I have tried > previously. It results in errors when attempting to run openssl to get > its version)? >
The latter: you extract 0.9.8w into a separate directory and do: ./config fips instead of: ./config OpenSSL should then pick up and use the validated module you installed before to generate a so called "FIPS capable OpenSSL" that is a version of OpenSSL that makes use of the validated module. If you get errors please give details of what they are. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
