The change to a more configuration based approach to enable FIPS mode
operation highlights a shortcoming in the default should do something
approach we've taken for bad configuration files.
Currently, a bad configuration file will be automatically loaded and
once the badness is detected, it will silently stop processing the
configuration and continue normal operations. This is good for remote
servers, allowing changes to be made without bricking things. It's bad
when a user thinks they've configured what they want but got something
wrong and it still appears to work.
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Belyavskiy <beldmit@gmail.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16171)
OpenSSL 1.1.1 introduced a new CSPRNG with an improved seeding
mechanism, which makes it dispensable to define a RANDFILE for
saving and restoring randomness. This commit removes the RANDFILE
declarations from our own configuration files and adds documentation
that this option is not needed anymore and retained mainly for
compatibility reasons.
Fixes#10433
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10436)
