Re: [RFC] revamp fips_allowed flag

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On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 08:23:05AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> 
> Where shall we draw the line here? Shall that be only for authenc, or seqiv? 
> Or shall we also consider rfc4106 too, knowing that there are implementations 
> which provide a full rfc4106 GCM combo (x86 for example). What about the 
> current pkcspad1 template where we could expect that there may be entire HW 
> implementations with that?

That's something that only you can tell us :)

For such templates we could move that info into the generic
template implementation code and have them declare themselves
as such that for any X if X is FIPS allowed then so is T(X).

This info can then be used in testmgr.

Cheers,
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