Compiling OpenSSH with OpenSSL-fips 0.9.8o on Windows

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 23 16:42, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Bryan wrote:
> > Putty is not an option for us since it uses it's own OpenSSL libs
> > and we need it FIPS enabled.
> 
> If PuTTY uses OpenSSL for encryption then you could of course build
> PuTTY against your FIPS-enabled OpenSSL.
> 
> 
> > I've been able to build OpenSSL 0.9.8o and enable the
> > fipcanister.lib and create the openssl executables and libraries.
> > I've been able to find instructions on how to build OpenSSH at this
> > site:
> > 
> > http://www.nomachine.com/ar/view.php?ar_id=AR05H00563
> > 
> > and here:
> > 
> > http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~smp/projects/ssh-windows/compile/
> > 
> > But I can't tell if either method is the correct one for building
> > using cygwin.
> 
> Note that Cygwin is a very different system from Windows. First
> decided what it is that you want. Do you want a native binary, or a
> Cygwin binary?

And, if using OpenSSH 5.5p1, using OpenSSL 0.9.8o under Cygwin is an
option for you, just use the pre-build packages from the Cygwin distro.
See http://cygwin.com/


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
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