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OpenSSL *source* to get FIPS 140-2 Level 1 certification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Fri Sep 5 11:53:18 2003
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Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 10:50:49 -0400
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>
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This is termendously exciting. For the first time ever, NIST will be
certifying a FIPS 140 implementation based on the source code. As long
as the "pedigree" of the source is tracked, and checked at run-time,
then applications can claim FIPS certification.
For details:
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=bj9mos%242tbt%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&prev=/groups%3Fgroup%3Dmailing.openssl.users
/r$
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Rich Salz, Chief Security Architect
DataPower Technology http://www.datapower.com
XS40 XML Security Gateway http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html
XML Security Overview http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html
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