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ChuckMcM on April 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: LibreSSL: FIPS mode is not coming back

Its a reasonable stance, I expect someone will create libfipsssl for the reason that they can charge money for it. For a while at Sun I suggested that we meet the "OSI Network Standards" requirement by just sending a library with stubs that would close out the link, and if they ever got called email us. The humor didn't seem to reasonate with the Federal Systems people :-)

ballard on April 24, 2014 [–]

Definitely. It'll be expensive commercial open source w/ a subscription and delayed to pass FIPS. And LibreSSL will still be more secure.

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