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From: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: XTS - remove test that will fail in FIPS mode
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 10:43:35 +0200
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Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2016, 19:42:54 CEST schrieb Tapas Sarangi:

Hi Tapas,

> Hi Stephan,
> 
> Any other ideas about this problem ? Since XTS is not amongst the
> self-tests as you observed, is it safe to disable .fips_allowed for
> xts(aes) in testmgr.c ?

If you do that, none of your XTS implementations will be allowed and work in 
FIPS mode. The thing is that I cannot reproduce the issue (yet). I am still 
looking.

Ciao
Stephan