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NAME
openssl-fipsinstall - perform FIPS configuration installation
SYNOPSIS
openssl fipsinstall [-help] [-in configfilename] [-out configfilename] [-module modulefilename]
[-provider_name providername] [-section_name sectionname] [-verify] [-mac_name macname] [-macopt nm:v]
[-noout] [-quiet] [-no_conditional_errors] [-no_security_checks] [-self_test_onload] [-corrupt_desc
selftest_description] [-corrupt_type selftest_type] [-config parent_config]
DESCRIPTION
This command is used to generate a FIPS module configuration file. This configuration file can be used
each time a FIPS module is loaded in order to pass data to the FIPS module self tests. The FIPS module
always verifies its MAC, but optionally only needs to run the KAT's once, at installation.
The generated configuration file consists of:
- A MAC of the FIPS module file.
- A test status indicator.
This indicates if the Known Answer Self Tests (KAT's) have successfully run.
- A MAC of the status indicator.
- A control for conditional self tests errors.
By default if a continuous test (e.g a key pair test) fails then the FIPS module will enter an error
state, and no services or cryptographic algorithms will be able to be accessed after this point. The
default value of '1' will cause the fips module error state to be entered. If the value is '0' then
the module error state will not be entered. Regardless of whether the error state is entered or not,
the current operation (e.g. key generation) will return an error. The user is responsible for
retrying the operation if the module error state is not entered.
- A control to indicate whether run-time security checks are done.
This indicates if run-time checks related to enforcement of security parameters such as minimum
security strength of keys and approved curve names are used. The default value of '1' will perform
the checks. If the value is '0' the checks are not performed and FIPS compliance must be done by
procedures documented in the relevant Security Policy.
This file is described in fips_config(5).
OPTIONS
-help
Print a usage message.
-module filename
Filename of the FIPS module to perform an integrity check on. The path provided in the filename is
used to load the module when it is activated, and this overrides the environment variable
OPENSSL_MODULES.
-out configfilename
Filename to output the configuration data to; the default is standard output.
-in configfilename
Input filename to load configuration data from. Must be used if the -verify option is specified.
-verify
Verify that the input configuration file contains the correct information.
-provider_name providername
Name of the provider inside the configuration file. The default value is "fips".
-section_name sectionname
Name of the section inside the configuration file. The default value is "fips_sect".
-mac_name name
Specifies the name of a supported MAC algorithm which will be used. The MAC mechanisms that are
available will depend on the options used when building OpenSSL. To see the list of supported MAC's
use the command "openssl list -mac-algorithms". The default is HMAC.
-macopt nm:v
Passes options to the MAC algorithm. A comprehensive list of controls can be found in the EVP_MAC
implementation documentation. Common control strings used for this command are:
key:string
Specifies the MAC key as an alphanumeric string (use if the key contains printable characters
only). The string length must conform to any restrictions of the MAC algorithm. A key must be
specified for every MAC algorithm. If no key is provided, the default that was specified when
OpenSSL was configured is used.
hexkey:string
Specifies the MAC key in hexadecimal form (two hex digits per byte). The key length must conform
to any restrictions of the MAC algorithm. A key must be specified for every MAC algorithm. If
no key is provided, the default that was specified when OpenSSL was configured is used.
digest:string
Used by HMAC as an alphanumeric string (use if the key contains printable characters only). The
string length must conform to any restrictions of the MAC algorithm. To see the list of
supported digests, use the command "openssl list -digest-commands". The default digest is
SHA-256.
-noout
Disable logging of the self tests.
-no_conditional_errors
Configure the module to not enter an error state if a conditional self test fails as described above.
-no_security_checks
Configure the module to not perform run-time security checks as described above.
-self_test_onload
Do not write the two fields related to the "test status indicator" and "MAC status indicator" to the
output configuration file. Without these fields the self tests KATS will run each time the module is
loaded. This option could be used for cross compiling, since the self tests need to run at least once
on each target machine. Once the self tests have run on the target machine the user could possibly
then add the 2 fields into the configuration using some other mechanism.
-quiet
Do not output pass/fail messages. Implies -noout.
-corrupt_desc selftest_description, -corrupt_type selftest_type
The corrupt options can be used to test failure of one or more self tests by name. Either option or
both may be used to select the tests to corrupt. Refer to the entries for st-desc and st-type in
OSSL_PROVIDER-FIPS(7) for values that can be used.
-config parent_config
Test that a FIPS provider can be loaded from the specified configuration file. A previous call to
this application needs to generate the extra configuration data that is included by the base
"parent_config" configuration file. See config(5) for further information on how to set up a
provider section. All other options are ignored if '-config' is used.
NOTES
Self tests results are logged by default if the options -quiet and -noout are not specified, or if either
of the options -corrupt_desc or -corrupt_type are used. If the base configuration file is set up to
autoload the fips module, then the fips module will be loaded and self tested BEFORE the fipsinstall
application has a chance to set up its own self test callback. As a result of this the self test output
and the options -corrupt_desc and -corrupt_type will be ignored. For normal usage the base configuration
file should use the default provider when generating the fips configuration file.
EXAMPLES
Calculate the mac of a FIPS module fips.so and run a FIPS self test for the module, and save the fips.cnf
configuration file:
openssl fipsinstall -module ./fips.so -out fips.cnf -provider_name fips
Verify that the configuration file fips.cnf contains the correct info:
openssl fipsinstall -module ./fips.so -in fips.cnf -provider_name fips -verify
Corrupt any self tests which have the description "SHA1":
openssl fipsinstall -module ./fips.so -out fips.cnf -provider_name fips \
-corrupt_desc 'SHA1'
Validate that the fips module can be loaded from a base configuration file:
export OPENSSL_CONF_INCLUDE=<path of configuration files>
export OPENSSL_MODULES=<provider-path>
openssl fipsinstall -config' 'default.cnf'
SEE ALSO
config(5), fips_config(5), OSSL_PROVIDER-FIPS(7), EVP_MAC(3)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2019-2021 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance
with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
3.0.13 2025-02-05 OPENSSL-FIPSINSTALL(1SSL)