Re: mutual authentication fails when FIPS enabled

Some additional documentation that might help.

https://www.openssl.org/docs/fips/UserGuide-2.0.pdf
and
https://www.openssl.org/docs/fips/UserGuide-1.1.1.pdf
Say:
"A subsection of Section 2.1 of the CMVP FAQ entitled "A vendor is selling me a crypto solution -
what should I ask?" states:
"Verify with the vendor that the application or product that is being offered is either a
validated cryptographic module itself (e.g. VPN, SmartCard, etc) or the application or
product uses an embedded validated cryptographic module (toolkit, etc). Ask the vendor to
supply a signed letter stating their application, product or module is a validated module or
incorporates a validated module, the module provides all the cryptographic services in the
solution, and reference the modules validation certificate number."

"Note that the CMVP FAQ does specify that a FIPS 140-1/2 validated module may be incorporated
into another product. It then specifies that making a decision on whether a product is correctly
utilizing an embedded module is outside of the scope of the FIPS 140-1 or FIPS 140-2 validation."



I can't find the above reference but the following might help.
(Note libp11 can't provide such a letter.)

http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/CMVPFAQ.pdf
https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/cmvp-management-manual-and-faqs
https://csrc.nist.gov/Topics/technologies/smart-cards
(Government issued PIV smartcards should qualify.)

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  Douglas E. Engert  <[email protected]>