I have already requested the CD of software from OpenSSL -- that section does not really assist with the build functions.

The FIPSDIR= option still did not allow Stunnel to autodiscover FIPS.h -- this is my openssl1.0.1h configure command

openssl-fips-2.0.7

./config ; make ; make install

openssl-1.0.1h

./config fips --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl-100 --with-fipslibdir=/usr/local/ssl/fips-2.0/lib --with-fipsdir=/usr/local/ssl/fips-2.0/ ; make depend ; make ; make test ; make install

Stunnel5.02

I am not installling the newer copy of openssl to the rest of the system, just as libraries accessible to Stunnel for building with a version that is different than the OS installed openssl so as not to risk breaking ssh or OS Upgrade capabilities

./configure --with-ssl=/usr/local/openssl-100 --disable-libwrap ; make ; make install

During the Make phase it just says it cannot find fips.h but it says fips enabled -- but when I tell it to use FIPS I get

checking whether to enable FIPS mode support... yes

configure: **************************************** SSL

checking for SSL directory... /usr/local/openssl-100

checking /usr/local/openssl-100/include/openssl/engine.h usability... yes

checking /usr/local/openssl-100/include/openssl/engine.h presence... yes

checking for /usr/local/openssl-100/include/openssl/engine.h... yes

checking /usr/local/openssl-100/include/openssl/ocsp.h usability... yes

checking /usr/local/openssl-100/include/openssl/ocsp.h presence... yes

checking for /usr/local/openssl-100/include/openssl/ocsp.h... yes

checking /usr/local/openssl-100/include/openssl/fips.h usability... no

checking /usr/local/openssl-100/include/openssl/fips.h presence... no

checking for /usr/local/openssl-100/include/openssl/fips.h... no

configure: WARNING: OpenSSL fips header not found

configure: **************************************** write the results

configure: creating ./config.status

Restarting Stunnel with fips=yes gives me this

[!] FIPS_mode_set: F06D065: error:0F06D065:common libcrypto routines:FIPS_mode_set:fips mode not supported

[!] Line 35: "[webapp]": Failed to initialize SSL

The TODO file in Stunnel5.02 tarball has this

* Support static FIPS-enabled build.

Does this mean that it can only currently support a system that is fully fips enabled and not my static libraries that I use for building Stunnel? Thats what I get out of this.

And upon further reading of the INSTALL.FIPS file I confirm this

Unix HOWTO:

* Only dynamic linking of the FIPS-enabled OpenSSL is currently supported,

i.e. FIPS-enabled OpenSSL has to be configured with "shared" parameter.

I cannot install it with dynamic libraries as I am required to build via the actual instructions for FIPS 140-2 compliance which implicitly states I cannot call out shared as part of the config options.

Mike Curran

From: mike_curran@hotmail.com
To: nobody@dizum.com
Subject: RE: FIPS compliant Stunnel build
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:34:08 -0500