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| author | Matt Hauck <matt@thehaucks.xyz> | 2024-03-14 18:25:11 -0700 |
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| committer | Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> | 2024-03-22 10:54:49 +0100 |
| commit | e10aa4bb83d21bfd2dc6923f4f34a5f2329029db (patch) | |
| tree | 9af7edcdd36d7e9b4efa632f4ee358b262eafa6e | |
| parent | 6c23c726bb87b499f30a9ec9e91ea72433c83f21 (diff) | |
Update FIPS hmac key documentation
The documentation is slightly incorrect about the FIPS hmac key.
CLA: trivial
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/23846)
(cherry picked from commit 53ef123f48d402aff7c27f8ec15191cb1cde4105)
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.md | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index a37fd24dba..b486ee1556 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ Setting the FIPS HMAC key As part of its self-test validation, the FIPS module must verify itself by performing a SHA-256 HMAC computation on itself. The default key is -the SHA256 value of "the holy handgrenade of antioch" and is sufficient +the SHA256 value of "holy hand grenade of antioch" and is sufficient for meeting the FIPS requirements. To change the key to a different value, use this flag. The value should |