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Title "FIPS_CONFIG 5ossl"
FIPS_CONFIG 5ossl 2025-07-01 3.5.1 OpenSSL
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NAME
fips_config - OpenSSL FIPS configuration
DESCRIPTION
Header "DESCRIPTION" A separate configuration file, using the OpenSSL config\|(5) syntax, is used to hold information about the FIPS module. This includes a digest of the shared library file, and status about the self-testing. This data is used automatically by the module itself for two purposes:
"- Run the startup FIPS self-test known answer tests (KATS)." 4
Item "- Run the startup FIPS self-test known answer tests (KATS)." This is normally done once, at installation time, but may also be set up to run each time the module is used.
"- Verify the module's checksum." 4
Item "- Verify the module's checksum." This is done each time the module is used.

This file is generated by the openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) program, and used internally by the FIPS module during its initialization.

The following options are supported. They should all appear in a section whose name is identified by the fips option in the providers section, as described in "Provider Configuration Module" in config\|(5).

activate 4
Item "activate" If present, the module is activated. The value assigned to this name is not significant.
conditional-errors 4
Item "conditional-errors" The FIPS module normally enters an internal error mode if any self test fails. Once this error mode is active, no services or cryptographic algorithms are accessible from this point on. Continuous tests are a subset of the self tests (e.g., a key pair test during key generation, or the CRNG output test). Setting this value to 0 allows the error mode to not be triggered if any continuous test fails. The default value of 1 will trigger the error mode. Regardless of the value, the operation (e.g., key generation) that called the continuous test will return an error code if its continuous test fails. The operation may then be retried if the error mode has not been triggered.
module-mac 4
Item "module-mac" The calculated MAC of the FIPS provider file.
install-version 4
Item "install-version" A version number for the fips install process. Should be 1.
install-status 4
Item "install-status" An indicator that the self-tests were successfully run. This should only be written after the module has successfully passed its self tests during installation. If this field is not present, then the self tests will run when the module loads.
install-mac 4
Item "install-mac" A MAC of the value of the install-status option, to prevent accidental changes to that value. It is written-to at the same time as install-status is updated.
"FIPS indicator options"
Subsection "FIPS indicator options" The following FIPS configuration options indicate if run-time checks related to enforcement of FIPS security parameters such as minimum security strength of keys and approved curve names are used. A value of '1' will perform the checks, otherwise if the value is '0' the checks are not performed and FIPS compliance must be done by procedures documented in the relevant Security Policy.

See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) for further information related to these options.

security-checks 4
Item "security-checks" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -no_security_checks
tls1-prf-ems-check 4
Item "tls1-prf-ems-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -ems_check
no-short-mac 4
Item "no-short-mac" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -no_short_mac
drbg-no-trunc-md 4
Item "drbg-no-trunc-md" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -no_drbg_truncated_digests
signature-digest-check 4
Item "signature-digest-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -signature_digest_check
hkdf-digest-check 4
Item "hkdf-digest-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -hkdf_digest_check
tls13-kdf-digest-check 4
Item "tls13-kdf-digest-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -tls13_kdf_digest_check
tls1-prf-digest-check 4
Item "tls1-prf-digest-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -tls1_prf_digest_check
sshkdf-digest-check 4
Item "sshkdf-digest-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -sshkdf_digest_check
sskdf-digest-check 4
Item "sskdf-digest-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -sskdf_digest_check
x963kdf-digest-check 4
Item "x963kdf-digest-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -x963kdf_digest_check
dsa-sign-disabled 4
Item "dsa-sign-disabled" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -dsa_sign_disabled
tdes-encrypt-disabled 4
Item "tdes-encrypt-disabled" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -tdes_encrypt_disabled
rsa-pkcs15-pad-disabled 4
Item "rsa-pkcs15-pad-disabled" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -rsa_pkcs15_pad_disabled
rsa-pss-saltlen-check 4
Item "rsa-pss-saltlen-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -rsa_pss_saltlen_check
rsa-sign-x931-pad-disabled 4
Item "rsa-sign-x931-pad-disabled" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -rsa_sign_x931_disabled
hkdf-key-check 4
Item "hkdf-key-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -hkdf_key_check
kbkdf-key-check 4
Item "kbkdf-key-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -kbkdf_key_check
tls13-kdf-key-check 4
Item "tls13-kdf-key-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -tls13_kdf_key_check
tls1-prf-key-check 4
Item "tls1-prf-key-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -tls1_prf_key_check
sshkdf-key-check 4
Item "sshkdf-key-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -sshkdf_key_check
sskdf-key-check 4
Item "sskdf-key-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -sskdf_key_check
x963kdf-key-check 4
Item "x963kdf-key-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -x963kdf_key_check
x942kdf-key-check 4
Item "x942kdf-key-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -x942kdf_key_check
pbkdf2-lower-bound-check 4
Item "pbkdf2-lower-bound-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -no_pbkdf2_lower_bound_check
ecdh-cofactor-check 4
Item "ecdh-cofactor-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -ecdh_cofactor_check
hmac-key-check 4
Item "hmac-key-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -hmac_key_check
kmac-key-check 4
Item "kmac-key-check" See "OPTIONS" in openssl-fipsinstall\|(1) -kmac_key_check

For example:

.Vb 8 [fips_sect] activate = 1 install-version = 1 conditional-errors = 1 security-checks = 1 module-mac = 41:D0:FA:C2:5D:41:75:CD:7D:C3:90:55:6F:A4:DC install-mac = FE:10:13:5A:D3:B4:C7:82:1B:1E:17:4C:AC:84:0C install-status = INSTALL_SELF_TEST_KATS_RUN .Ve

NOTES
Header "NOTES" When using the FIPS provider, it is recommended that the \fBconfig_diagnostics option is enabled to prevent accidental use of non-FIPS validated algorithms via broken or mistaken configuration. See config\|(5).
"SEE ALSO"
Header "SEE ALSO" \fBconfig\|(5) \fBopenssl-fipsinstall\|(1)
HISTORY
Header "HISTORY" This functionality was added in OpenSSL 3.0.
COPYRIGHT
Header "COPYRIGHT" Copyright 2019-2024 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>.