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Chris_FP
Cirrus
May 23, 2014FIPS 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...
Neha_51838
Dec 24, 2014Historic F5 Account
To check the FIPS-card in v10, I think the easiest would be to try a FIPS key generation. The below output will be seen for an uninitialized FIPS card:
fipskey generate test-fips 2048
Key generation failed: error 18 - ERR_HSM_NOT_INITIALIZED
While for an initialized FIPS card, the key generation will be successful, like so:
fipskey generate test-fips 2048
PUBLIC:
PRIVATE:
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