Compiling OpenSSH with OpenSSL-fips 0.9.8o on Windows

[Iain Morgan]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 15:06:42 -0500, Jim Knoble wrote:
> On 2010-07-23 14:16, Douglas E. Engert wrote:
> 
> : 
> : 
> : On 7/23/2010 10:09 AM, 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.
>   [...]
> : Some other SSH clients that do FIPS:
> : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_SSH_clients
> 
> Quasi-missing from the list is 'lftp', which can do sftp transfers:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lftp
> http://lftp.yar.ru/
> 
> Can link against OpenSSL, which means your FIPS-OpenSSL may work.
> 

Sorry, I haven't been following this thread very closely, but in the
case of lftp the OpenSSL library would only be a consideration for FTPS
and HTTPS. For SFTP it, by default, uses ssh. It does not implement the
SSH protocol directly.

-- 
Iain Morgan