Hello

  I think there is a bit of confusion within my company on what stunnel can do in regards to FIPS 140-2 out of the box. I know there are configuration options that can enable or disable FIPS 140-2 mode, but as the man page indicates

fips = yes | no

Enable or disable FIPS 140-2 mode.
This option allows to disable entering FIPS mode if stunnel was compiled with FIPS 140-2 support.
default: yes

Which to me says I have to compile stunnel on my own using openssl with fips libraries to build a Stunnel binary that can support FIPS 140-2 compliance -- if I download just the windows or unix binaries and install them -- then I am not going to be 140-2 compliant where I set the config file to yes or no , since the FIPS modules wont be compiled into the binary.


I'm just looking for confirmation before I take this back to the rest of my group.



Thanks!!


Michael Curran