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authorRich Salz <rsalz@akamai.com>2020-04-24 10:48:51 -0400
committerTomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>2020-05-19 16:05:56 +0200
commitfb420afc878fa38a5d8cf22e25cf7d438d39987a (patch)
treee273d469bf6f1d432a374ae546ba6c02f0f9b978 /doc/man5
parentd03b3158c532bcb3fcde83c66ee9b4858d42621c (diff)
Use {module,install}-mac, not -checksum
As the documentation points out, these fipsmodule.cnf fields are a MAC, not a digest or checksum. Rename them to be correct. Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/11369)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man5')
-rw-r--r--doc/man5/fips_config.pod12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man5/fips_config.pod b/doc/man5/fips_config.pod
index 746d68c8ac..e589aa3d95 100644
--- a/doc/man5/fips_config.pod
+++ b/doc/man5/fips_config.pod
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ section, as desribed in L<config(5)/Provider Configuration Module>.
=over 4
-=item B<module-checksum>
+=item B<module-mac>
-The calculated digest of the module file.
+The calculated MAC of the FIPS provider file.
=item B<install-version>
@@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ successfully passed its self tests during installation.
If this field is not present, then the self tests will run when the module
loads.
-=item B<install-checksum>
+=item B<install-mac>
-A MAC on the value of the B<install-status> option, to prevent accidental
+A MAC of the value of the B<install-status> option, to prevent accidental
changes to that value.
It is written-to at the same time as B<install-status> is updated.
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ For example:
[fips_install]
install-version = 1
- module-checksum = 41:D0:FA:C2:5D:41:75:CD:7D:C3:90:55:6F:A4:DC
- install-checksum = FE:10:13:5A:D3:B4:C7:82:1B:1E:17:4C:AC:84:0C
+ 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
=head1 SEE ALSO