On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:51:24 +0100, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre wrote: > > > > Uhm, I'm confused. I thought we were talking about 3.0? > > Well, the original post started at FIPS 2.0: > > > I am using openssl-fips-2.0.16 and openssl-1.0.2e. > https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-users/2019-February/009919.html Yes, it did... and then evolved, as threads on the Internet often do (or for that matter, in physical life too). > But it seems like the discussion in the thread has drifted a little > towards the FIPS 3.0 future, which explains our mutual confusion. Yup :-) > For that reason it is even more important that we don't use legacy > terms like "FIPS capable" in the context of FIPS 3.0 and stick to > "FIPS Providers" (or whatever correct new terms are; I'm currently > not 100% up-to-date) instead. Cool, we agree then :-) "FIPS provider" is what we use within the team, or sometimes "FIPS provider module". They are synonymous, but the latter is more precise. Cheers, Richard -- Richard Levitte levitte@xxxxxxxxxxx OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/
