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From: "Mcnamara, John" <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
To: "Mcnamara, John" <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
	Brandon Lo <blo@iol.unh.edu>,
	 "Zhang, Roy Fan" <roy.fan.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>, "Kovacevic, Marko" <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] Question Regarding FIPS Validation in DPDK
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 14:45:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM6PR11MB32272A72FB1250EF6C3BAABAFC699@DM6PR11MB3227.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM6PR11MB32279893059B20DBB03CB491FC699@DM6PR11MB3227.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 8:45 AM
> To: Brandon Lo <blo@iol.unh.edu>; Zhang, Roy Fan <roy.fan.zhang@intel.com>
> Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>; Kovacevic, Marko <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
> Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] Question Regarding FIPS Validation in DPDK
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Brandon Lo
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 5:45 PM
> > To: Kovacevic, Marko <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
> > Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] Question Regarding FIPS Validation in DPDK
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been able to use Cisco's libacvp tool to retrieve test vectors
> > from the NIST ACVP API.
> > However, after building the dpdk-fips_validation example and reading
> > through its documentation, it seems like the example application is
> > unable to parse the request files due to them being in a different
> format.
> > Currently, the ACVP API will supply request files in json format.
> >
> > The example app documentation says that the request file must be in
> > CAVS
> > 21.0 format. I have not been able to find a specification for this
> > format to compare.
> > Does the current version of the dpdk-fips_validation example support
> > the API's test vectors in json format?
> 
> 
> At the time the dpdk-fips_validation tool was written the test vectors
> weren't available in JSON format, and, to the best of my knowledge, there
> was a format specification (which is why there is different parsing for
> different algorithms). We (the community) should probably move to the JSON
> format. Adding Fan Zhang since I think this was discussion in the
> community previously.

Sorry I meant to say " to the best of my knowledge, there *wasn't* a format specification" available.

John


  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-02 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-03 17:44 Brandon Lo
2021-12-02  8:44 ` Mcnamara, John
2021-12-02 14:45   ` Mcnamara, John [this message]
2021-12-03 18:44     ` Brandon Lo
2021-12-06  8:49       ` Mcnamara, John

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