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Re: OpenSSL *source* to get FIPS 140-2 Level 1 certification

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joshua Hill)
Fri Sep 5 15:42:30 2003

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Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:26:58 -0700
From: Joshua Hill <josh-crypto@untruth.org>
To: Anton Stiglic <astiglic@okiok.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <000f01c373d3$a9ab85f0$3f00a8c0@p1038mobile>; from astiglic@okiok.com on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:32:21PM -0400

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:32:21PM -0400, Anton Stiglic wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken, this would be the first free,
> open-source, crypto library that has FIPS 140 module certification!  

I believe that this is incorrect.  

The two open-source projects that I'm aware of that have FIPS 140 certs
are The Crypto++ Library, (cert 343, issued today) and The Mozilla
project's NSS, which was certified by SUN under FIPS 140-1, levels 1
and 2.  (certs 247 and 248).

			Josh

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