Compiling OpenSSH with OpenSSL-fips 0.9.8o on Windows

Jim Knoble jmknoble at pobox.com
Sat Jul 24 05:56:42 EST 2010


On 2010-07-23 11:09, Bryan wrote:

: On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 09:42, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
: > Bryan wrote:
: >> Putty is not an option for us since it uses it's own OpenSSL libs
: >> and we need it FIPS enabled.
  [...]
: >
: >> 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.

A simple Google for "openssh fips cygwin" produces the following:

http://www.sslshopper.com/article-how-to-set-up-openssh-on-windows.html

That doesn't sound like a "minimal Cygwin presence", but it may well
work (once the binary is built) with a base Cygwin install....

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