[dpdk-dev] Question Regarding FIPS Validation in DPDK

[Mcnamara, John]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Lo <blo at iol.unh.edu>
> Sent: Friday, December 3, 2021 6:45 PM
> To: Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara at intel.com>
> Cc: Zhang, Roy Fan <roy.fan.zhang at intel.com>; dev <dev at dpdk.org>;
> Kovacevic, Marko <marko.kovacevic at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Question Regarding FIPS Validation in DPDK
> 
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 9:45 AM Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara at intel.com>
> wrote:
> > > At the time the dpdk-fips_validation tool was written the test
> > > vectors weren't available in JSON format, and, to the best of my
> > > knowledge, there was a format specification (which is why there is
> > > different parsing for different algorithms). We (the community)
> > > should probably move to the JSON format. Adding Fan Zhang since I
> > > think this was discussion in the community previously.
> >
> > Sorry I meant to say " to the best of my knowledge, there *wasn't* a
> format specification" available.
> >
> > John
> 
> Should we plan to move away from the old format to only use the new JSON
> format going forward? I believe the file format "CAVS 21.0" is fully
> deprecated and NIST does not produce any new files in that format.

Yes, we should drop support for the older formats, which were inconsistent and hard to deal with. I don't know if there are any deprecation implications, we can look into that.

John