Re: [openssl-users] Testing FIPS mode using 0 randomness

2015-03-02 Thread Tom Francis
On Mar 2, 2015, at 12:18 PM, jonetsu jone...@teksavvy.com wrote: Hello, I tried a simple test to see if FIPS mode would fail, using the example given in the FIPS user guide 2.0. The test consisted of replacing the /dev/random and /dev/urandom with /dev/zero. I would have expected

[openssl-users] Testing FIPS mode using 0 randomness

2015-03-02 Thread jonetsu
Hello,   I tried a simple test to see if FIPS mode would fail, using the example given in the FIPS user guide 2.0.  The test consisted of replacing the /dev/random and /dev/urandom with /dev/zero.  I would have expected that no source of randomness would make the tests ran at the call of