-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rich, On 2/9/16 6:21 PM, cloud force wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Christopher Schultz > <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Rich, > > On 2/9/16 4:09 PM, cloud force wrote: >> Yes I do have* *some regulatory requirement to use FIPS and I >> have built the FIPS capable OpenSSL lib. > > Where is that library located on the disk? > >> [Rich] The new libcrypto.so located in the same directory >> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ > > > >> I tried to add the "SSLFIPS on" parameter to the httpd.conf >> config file as suggested in the ssl_mod manual page, but the >> httpd failed to start with errors which seemed to due to the fact >> that my apache server was not compiled against an SSL library >> which support the FIPS_mode flag. > > Maybe you are getting the system-provided OpenSSL library and not > the one you custom-built. > >> I need helps with guidance of how to compile apache server with >> FIPS capable OpenSSL lib so that the Apache server can be >> operating under the OpenSSL FIPS mode. > > Recompiling httpd is never needed to switch-out a shared library. > You just need to fix the way the OS loads things. > >> [Rich] How do I do that? That depends upon the answers to your various questions. > What OS? What version of that OS? Architecture, etc.? > >> [Rich] Ubuntu Linux 64 bit (version 12.04) > > > How did you install httpd? > >> [Rich] Httpd is packaged by Ubuntu as a package called apache2, >> and I installed the apache2 package. Good. Keep that package as it is. > How did you install OpenSSL (originally)? > >> [Rich] OpenSSL is also packaged by Ubuntu as a package. I >> installed the original Ubuntu openssl package. Okay. And that package is still installed and not broken? > Did you build the FIPS-capable OpenSSL library yourself or did you > get it from some other source? > >> [Rich] I downloaded the FIPS modules source and built it with the >> stock openssl library, and then installed the newly rebuild FIPS >> capable openssl library. I was able to verify by using the FIPS >> capable openssl lib, running the openssl command to generate a >> MD5 checksum failed due to it's an non-approved FIPS algorithm. Okay, good. IIRC, the "openssl" CLI is statically-linked so that will always work as long as you use the full path to the FIPS-capable openssl binary. Getting another program to load using the FIPS-capable library takes a bit of work. > Where is the FIPS-capable OpenSSL library on the disk? > >> [Rich] The .so files are mostly under the directory >> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ Isn't that where the Ubuntu-packages libraries are as well? What does this command show? $ dpkg -L libssl1.0.0 (This will still work if you have OpenSSL 1.0.1.) Where *exactly* are the FIPS-capable libraries you built? There should be several .so files produced by the build. What are they and where did you put them? > How do you launch httpd? > >> [Rich] Ubuntu uses upstart script to launch service like httpd. I >> just ran the upstart script (service apache2 start) to start the >> httpd. Ultimately, this is going to involve you adjusting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to point to the place where your FIPS-capable OpenSSL libraries are. But if you put them into the existing library search path, you may have broken both your original OpenSSL installation, plus the FIPS-capable libraries as well. It would be best to keep the FIPS-capable libraries somewhere out of the way where you won't confuse them with the package-installed ones. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAla7VSQACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDqQACbBdzt3ek8ywxxUFgjhb8YXhf7 1gAAnRRHqsNIEuOmd6OFjewx3M7UWZsa =JqxL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx