Re: NSS_NoDB_Init(".") and FIPS mode

Robert Relyea <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.crypto
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 03/18/2016 09:14 AM, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Is it possible to put NSS (softtoken) in FIPS mode (PK11_IsFIPS()) without
> a "modutil -fips true" database?
>
> By FIPS mode I guess I really mean confirm that NSS has performed some sort
> of FIPS self-check.
>
> An earlier thread mentioned some way of toggling things using
> SECMOD_DeleteInternalModule()?
Yes, SECMOD_DeleteInternalModule() is a toggle which switches NSS 
between FIPS and non-FIPS. If you don't have a database open, or the 
database is open readOnly, the change only affects the running program.

bob
>
> Andrew

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