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by jandrese 84 days ago
FIPS just locks you into a specific (generally fairly old) version of everything and sets some more annoying defaults. The only benefit is to be able to check a box on a form saying you qualify.
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pseudohadamard 83 days ago
It's not just that, would you rely on crypto code from Jason Donenfeld or crypto code from "all the CVEs" WolfSSL, https://www.wolfssl.com/docs/security-vulnerabilities/?
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