Cipher FIPS flag enforcement

Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov dbaryshkov at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 14:23:54 CEST 2014


On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 12:37, smueller at chronox.de said:
>
>> The random/ code still contains such logic. But all other fips flag
>> enforcement code is gone.
>
> That was due to the major revamp of the code.  I did not care about
> keeping the FIPS functionality.  I was anyway not able to check the
> functionality and thus I concluded that those companies planning to sell
> FIPS stuff should contact me or send a proper patch which I can apply
> without spending a lot of unpaid time.

Should we just drop that part of the code?



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With best wishes
Dmitry



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