Well, checking to see if the system is in FIPS mode at the kernel level is
pretty easy (fipscheck).

I would like to know that it's actually the way the vendor intended but I
couldn't determine a good way to do that. Seems like something that the
vendors would want to supply/encourage for those customers that need it.

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 4:17 PM Mark Thacker <[email protected]> wrote:

> AHHH.
> Well, checking the signatures of the RPMs verses what we posted in the
> certification would be a start. (sorry, manual there unless you automate
> using Ansible or OpenSCAP perhaps)
> You can check that the kernel is running in FIPS mode, of course, but I'm
> not sure that's all you want to check.
>  BTW : That process of checking that the system is configured in FIPS does
> get easier in the future.....
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 4:03 PM Trevor Vaughan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Actually, Mark, you've kind of nailed it on the head for me.
>>
>> I would like to be able to know that the system is the way it's
>> *supposed* to be instead of just kind of doing my best and hoping that
>> something didn't break.
>>
>> I was hoping that the validated modules area would have an XML file or
>> something that could be downloaded and processed :-|.
>>
>> Anyway, it seems like it would be an appropriate addition to the SCAP
>> scans since there is already the requirement to be enabled being checked
>> for various profiles. I was just hoping that someone had magically created
>> it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Trevor
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 3:59 PM Mark Thacker <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> We've definitely talked about this and there isn't a clear programmatic
>>> means to achieve this.
>>> Of course, we do log which specific version of the libraries that we
>>> build and test against in our certification report. So, those could be used
>>> to compare a running system against the certification report.
>>>
>>> Yes, I also understand that sometimes the desire is to be able to show
>>> that CentOS or Fedora is NOT FIPS certified verses RHEL. Of course, that
>>> assumes that the RHEL you are running on IS actually certified.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 3:39 PM Gabe Alford <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Outside of going to
>>>> https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/validated-modules/search
>>>> and clicking `search` with empty search parameters, don't know of
>>>> anything.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 1:33 PM Trevor Vaughan <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know of a project that can correlate the running operating
>>>>> system with the latest information on the FIPS 140 approved products list.
>>>>>
>>>>> Basically, I'm looking for a command where I can run something like
>>>>> `fipscertified` and get back a `0` or `1` based on the result of the
>>>>> latest/updated data.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bonus points, I'd love to be able to point it at apps and have it tell
>>>>> me, but that's a long shot given the statically compiled wonderland we all
>>>>> seem to be living in these days.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Trevor
>>>>>
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