Re: Configuring to fail when a provider doesn't load

"'Ladd, Watson' via openssl-users" <[email protected]>
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Thank you very much! We might send a patch to add it sometime depending on if we end up actually needing to make it.

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From: Neil Horman <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 10:10:32 AM
To: Ladd, Watson
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Subject: Re: Configuring to fail when a provider doesn't load

I'm not aware of any explicitly failure capability if a provider fails to load from the configuration file. I think the expected process here would be to call OPENSSL_init_crypto from your application, to drive the configuration parsing
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I'm not aware of any explicitly failure capability if a provider fails to load from the configuration file.   I think the expected process here would be to call OPENSSL_init_crypto from your application, to drive the configuration parsing and loading of any referenced providers, followed by a call to OSSL_PROVIDER_available().  failure on the latter call would mean that  the named provider in the available call wasn't loaded, despite being referenced in your config.

Neil


On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM 'Ladd, Watson' via openssl-users <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Dear OpenSSL users,


Is there a configuration option that will stop OpenSSL continuing to work if a provider fails to load? We'd like to do this to ensure that the FIPS module is used when possible across applications.


Sincerely,

Watson

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