Linux kernel source tree https://git.amat.us/linux/atom/crypto/fips.c?h=v2.6.30 2008-08-29T05:50:02Z 2008-08-29T05:50:02Z Neil Horman nhorman@tuxdriver.com 2008-08-05T06:13:08Z urn:sha1:ccb778e1841ce04b4c10b39f0dd2558ab2c6dcd4 Add the ability to turn FIPS-compliant mode on or off at boot In order to be FIPS compliant, several check may need to be preformed that may be construed as unusefull in a non-compliant mode. This patch allows us to set a kernel flag incating that we are running in a fips-compliant mode from boot up. It also exports that mode information to user space via a sysctl (/proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled). Tested successfully by me. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>