RE: Static OpenSSL 3 library with FIPS

[Paul Spencer <pspence@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the info.

You mean both libssl.a and libcrypto.a static, and then dynamically loaded fips.so, correct? Unfortunately that gets away from the single-binary-executable model and so is a somewhat major change.

-----Original Message-----

From: Matt Caswell <matt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

To: openssl-users@xxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Static OpenSSL 3 library with FIPS

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:22:02 +0000

On 25/03/2022 18:33, Paul Spencer wrote:

Q: Is it possible to have a static (.a) OpenSSL 3 library with FIPS support?

This was possible with OpenSSL 1.0.2 and the FIPS 2.0.x module (and 

special linking in the Makefile). However, with SSL3, if I go

Configure no-module enable-fips

then it silently disables FIPS. Is there any way to do this?

You can have a static libcrypto (.a) with a dynamically loaded FIPS 

module (i.e. using fips.so).

Configure no-shared enable-fips

You cannot have a statically linked FIPS module. It was a day 1 design 

decision that we would no longer support this.

Matt