On 12/4/24 10:57, Joe Conway wrote:
> On 12/4/24 10:01, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>> On 4 Dec 2024, at 15:52, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/4/24 09:45, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>>>> On 4 Dec 2024, at 15:40, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 12/4/24 09:33, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>>>>> since OpenSSL 1.1.1 cannot operate in FIPS mode.
>>>>> I don't think that is correct. The RHEL 8 openssl which was FIPS 140-2 validated is 1.1.1k. See:
>>>>>
https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/documents/security-policies/140sp4642.pdf
>>>> Does RHEL publish the source of their fork somewhere? In OpenSSL 1.1.1 the
>>>> code for FIPS_mode is:
>>>> int FIPS_mode(void)
>>>> {
>>>> /* This version of the library does not support FIPS mode. */
>>>> return 0;
>>>> }
>>>> Do you know if RHEL patched OpenSSL to allow FIPS_mode() to return other than 0
>>>> or if that function is useless regardless?
>>>
>>> Yes the RHEL and OpenSUSE rpms for openssl are heavily patched for the FIPS versions, as is the Ubuntu one. It has
beena while but last time I looked at all of this they were all using very similar patches to allow the "system wide"
FIPSmode rather than depending on the app to explicitly go into FIPS_mode().
>>>
>>> I can look for links, but investigating it involved (for example) installing the source rpm and then wading through
hundredsof patches in the SOURCE directory.
>
> I can send you the source RPM for openssl 1.1.1c which was an earlier
> FIPS validated version, but the main FIPS patch contains:
>
> 8<-------------
> diff -up openssl-1.1.1b/crypto/o_fips.c.fips openssl-1.1.1b/crypto/o_fips.c
> --- openssl-1.1.1b/crypto/o_fips.c.fips 2019-02-26 15:15:30.000000000 +0100
> +++ openssl-1.1.1b/crypto/o_fips.c 2019-02-28 11:30:06.817745466 +0100
> @@ -8,17 +8,28 @@
> */
>
> #include "internal/cryptlib.h"
> +#include "internal/fips_int.h"
>
> int FIPS_mode(void)
> {
> +#ifdef OPENSSL_FIPS
> + return FIPS_module_mode();
> +#else
> /* This version of the library does not support FIPS mode. */
> return 0;
> +#endif
> }
> 8<-------------
FWIW, here is a link to a 1.1.1k source RPM:
https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL8/baseos/latest/x86_64/getPackageSource/openssl-1.1.1k-4.el8.src.rpm
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Joe Conway
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