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Chris_FP's avatar
Chris_FP
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May 23, 2014

FIPS card - How to tell if it has been initialised

We have some 8900 LTM's that have a FIPS card installed. Long story short is that we need to re-use these boxes in a non-FIPS mode. The boxes have never been put live but they are installed and on t...
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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May 23, 2014

There are a few fips* utilities in the shell. I don't have a FIPS platform in front of me to test now, but try fipscheck and fipsutil.

 

I'd also note that you shouldn't have to use FIPS if it was enabled. You can selectively use or not use the FIPS HSM to store private keys.