On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 09:12:46AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > Hm... FIPS has the requirement that we test all algs before we use any > algs, self-tests on demand before first use for each alg is > insufficient. At first blush, I'm not seeing how we ensure this > happens. How can we trigger a cbc(des3_ede) self-test from userspace? > I see that modprobe'ing des.ko runs the base des and des3_ede > self-tests, but modprobe'ing cbc.ko doesn't lead to any self-tests > being run. Once we have a user-space interface crypto API you will be able to instantiate any given algorithm. For now I suggest that you create your own module to instantiate these FIPS algorithms. Or just load tcrypt and ignore the exit status, or make tcrypt return 0 if we're in FIPS mode. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
