OpenSSL gets hard-fought revalidation

By Tyler DeGiacomo on February 9, 2007 - 9:00am

After a long and arduous journey that included a suspended validation last year, the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) has announced that OpenSSL has regained its FIPS 140-2 validation and is now available for download. The validation process, which normally lasts a few months, took an astounding five years to complete, and those involved with the projects say they are already devising ways to avoid such long delays in future validations.

OpenSSL gets hard-fought revalidation.

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