PS provider</h2>

<p>The FIPS provider is a dynamically loadable module, and must therefore be loaded explicitly, either in code or through OpenSSL configuration (see <a href="../man5/config.html">config(5)</a>). It contains algorithm implementations that have been validated according to FIPS standards. Should it be needed (if other providers are loaded and offer implementations of the same algorithms), the property query string &quot;provider=fips&quot; can be used as a search criterion for these implement