[gnutls-help] FIPS and conditional tests

[jonetsu at teksavvy.com]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:02:36 +0100
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at gnutls.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:18 AM, jonetsu at teksavvy.com
> <jonetsu at teksavvy.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > In FIPS mode, will Gnu TLS perform the so-called conditional tests
> > automatically before each algorithm use ?
> 
> Which tests do you refer to? In FIPS mode you test the algorithms on
> library initialization not before each algorithm use.

There must be pairwise consistency test on each generation of a key
pair.  These are also known as conditional tests.  Does GnuTLs perform
these ?

Thanks.