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fips: provide function to manually run FIPS self-tests

Daiki Ueno requested to merge dueno/gnutls:wip/dueno/force-self-test into master

FIPS140-3 IG 10.3.E Periodic Self-Testing says:

At security levels 1 and 2, acceptable means for initiating the periodic self-tests include a provided service, resetting, rebooting or power cycling.

Neither resetting, rebooting, nor power-cycling is suitable because those involve operations outside of the module. Therefore this patch adds a new API to manually run the substance of FIPS140 self-tests.

Suggeested by Richard Costa and Stephan Mueller in: #1364 (closed)

Fixes: #1364 (closed)

Checklist

  • Commits have Signed-off-by: with name/author being identical to the commit author
  • Code modified for feature
  • Test suite updated with functionality tests
  • Test suite updated with negative tests
  • Documentation updated / NEWS entry present (for non-trivial changes)
  • CI timeout is 2h or higher (see Settings/CICD/General pipelines/Timeout)

Reviewer's checklist:

  • Any issues marked for closing are addressed
  • There is a test suite reasonably covering new functionality or modifications
  • Function naming, parameters, return values, types, etc., are consistent and according to CONTRIBUTION.md
  • This feature/change has adequate documentation added
  • No obvious mistakes in the code
Edited by Alexander Sosedkin

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