Hi Matt,

One more doubt.

Please let me know if I compiled my openssl 0.9.8za without -no-ec
option and I am not using this alogorithm in any of my application
then shall I can say my application is fips complaint?

Thanks,
Gayathri


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Gayathri Manoj <gayathri.an...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your update.
> We tried to compile without -no-ec . but its got  failed.
>
> Thanks,
> Gayathri
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Matt Caswell <m...@openssl.org> wrote:
>
>> On 6 August 2014 14:35, Gayathri Manoj <gayathri.an...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Matt,
>> >
>> > Is there any solution to compile openssl-0.9.8za without -no-ec option.
>> Or
>> > do we have any patch available to fix the fips breakage issue.
>> > Known issues in OpenSSL 0.9.8za:
>> >
>> > FIPS capable link failure with missing symbol BN_consttime_swap. Fixed
>> in
>> > 0.9.8zb-dev. Workaround is to compile with no-ec: the EC algorithms are
>> not
>> > FIPS approved in OpenSSL 0.9.8 anyway.
>> >
>>
>> 0.9.8zb is being released later today. So probably your best bet is to
>> wait for that.
>>
>> Although this does beg the question why you need a FIPS build if
>> you're going to be using non FIPS approved algorithms anyway?
>>
>> Matt
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