On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> - in some circumstances (government, regulated companies) encryption >> must be certified to the FIPS 140-2 standard > > I don't know this "standard". > > May-be this "fips standard" collides with the FHS, may-be this standard > is defective? > > Do you have a pointer/reference to this "standard"? Does it really > mandate pollution /usr/bin and thus $PATH? FIPS 140-2 is a US government standard for crypto system security. Its full text is available at http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/standards.html if you're interested. I have no idea if it actually requires them to be alongside the executables, but hopefully the link will help. -- Garrett Holmstrom -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
