On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 09:53, Tomas Mraz <to...@openssl.org> wrote: > Please note that there are two checksums in the configuration file. One > of them is the FIPS module checksum and the other is the checksum of > the configuration. You can copy the file across machines if it is > without the configuration checksum - that means the selftest will be > always run when the FIPS module (i.e., the fips provider) is loaded. >
Thanks for the info! I was wondering whether there was a FIPS-compliant way to use fips.dll on a machine without first having to run 'openssl fipsinstall' on that machine, and this seems to be it. Richard