Re: NSS Apache module - mod_nss

2006-05-18 Thread Julien Pierre
Wan-Teh Chang wrote: Rob Crittenden wrote: A fair bit of work has been done to mod_nss, an SSL module for Apache that uses NSS instead of OpenSSL, since it was released last September. Changes since then include use the NSS OCSP client, addition of a FIPS mode (similar to modutil -fips true

Re: FIPS 140-2 certification plans

2006-05-18 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
David Stutzman wrote: From the PDF (CMVP = Cryptographic Module Validation Program for those that don't know. http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/ or http://www.csrc.nist.gov/pki/PKITesting.html): "The CMVP allows user porting of a validated software cryptographic module on an OS(s) and/or GPC(

Re: NSS Apache module - mod_nss

2006-05-18 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
Rob Crittenden wrote: A fair bit of work has been done to mod_nss, an SSL module for Apache that uses NSS instead of OpenSSL, since it was released last September. Changes since then include use the NSS OCSP client, addition of a FIPS mode (similar to modutil -fips true -dbdir /path/to/databas

Re: NSS Apache module - mod_nss

2006-05-18 Thread Nelson B. Bolyard
Rob Crittenden wrote: > A fair bit of work has been done to mod_nss, an SSL module for Apache > that uses NSS instead of OpenSSL, since it was released last September. > > Changes since then include use the NSS OCSP client, addition of a FIPS > mode (similar to modutil -fips true -dbdir /path/to/d

NSS Apache module - mod_nss

2006-05-18 Thread Rob Crittenden
A fair bit of work has been done to mod_nss, an SSL module for Apache that uses NSS instead of OpenSSL, since it was released last September. Changes since then include use the NSS OCSP client, addition of a FIPS mode (similar to modutil -fips true -dbdir /path/to/database), options to seed th

Re: FIPS 140-2 certification plans

2006-05-18 Thread David Stutzman
Wan-Teh Chang wrote: Note that NIST already allows a crypto module vendor or user to recompile the source code, without modification, for another platform and *maintain the validation status*, with the caveat that NIST makes no statement about the correct operation of the crypto module on platfo

Re: FIPS 140-2 certification plans

2006-05-18 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
David Stutzman wrote: I just read an interesting article about the FIPS certification of OpenSSL which was brought on by the Defense Department’s Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support program. It says that they had the source verified instead of the binary and "Because the source code was

Re: FIPS 140-2 certification plans

2006-05-18 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
David Stutzman wrote: I just noticed on the FIPS page what might be an error... http://wiki.mozilla.org/FIPS_Validation The HMAC row of the table has the following in the Modes column: KeySize < BlockSize, KeySize = BlockSize, KeySize < BlockSize Should one of those < be a >? Yes, the second

Re: FIPS 140-2 certification plans

2006-05-18 Thread David Stutzman
I just noticed on the FIPS page what might be an error... http://wiki.mozilla.org/FIPS_Validation The HMAC row of the table has the following in the Modes column: KeySize < BlockSize, KeySize = BlockSize, KeySize < BlockSize Should one of those < be a >? Let me know if there's someone/where el

FIPS 140-2 certification plans

2006-05-18 Thread David Stutzman
I just read an interesting article about the FIPS certification of OpenSSL which was brought on by the Defense Department’s Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support program. It says that they had the source verified instead of the binary and "Because the source code was validated, it could b

[Fwd: Re: NSS Wiki / Developer Wiki]

2006-05-18 Thread David Stutzman
Forwarding this on at Wan-Teh's request for comment by all. I was just looking to help out with keeping the publicly available info current and relevant. Dave Original Message Subject:Re: NSS Wiki / Developer Wiki Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 10:57:51 -0700 From: Wan-T

Re: dev-tech-crypto Digest, Vol 5, Issue 13

2006-05-18 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Peter Djalaliev wrote: So there is patch for including the Hello extension? Where can I find it? Is it in some kind of a nightly build or in the CVS directory? You probably should read the following to see more precisely what it's all about : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2262