On 02/24/2015 10:26 PM, Tom Francis wrote: > ... > > Steve Marquess: Is the document (which IIRC, you published back > before the first validation) on how/why the FIPS Object Module was > coded still available somewhere? If so, that?d probably be a good > starting point for people who post questions like this. It?s > certainly not something that?s easy to figure out if one doesn?t > already have an idea of what?s going on. :) Hmmm ... that's a long time ago (over a dozen years) and TBH I have no memory of that document. If you can recall a file name or some distinctive content I could search for it in our extensive internal archives, but that early history is extensive and convoluted so I doubt I could find it otherwise. For that first validation it took a lot of false starts to eventually stumble into an approach the CMVP considered acceptable. -Steve M. -- Steve Marquess OpenSSL Software Foundation, Inc. 1829 Mount Ephraim Road Adamstown, MD 21710 USA +1 877 673 6775 s/b +1 301 874 2571 direct marquess at opensslfoundation.com marquess at openssl.com gpg/pgp key: http://openssl.com/docs/0x6D1892F5.asc
