Are there any FIPS-140-2 certified solutions for Linux?

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Published on 2009-05-20T01:38:52Z Indexed on 2014/08/23 4:22 UTC
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I'm not even 100% certain what this involves, but my current understanding is this:

  • use of only approved cryptographic algorithms for network traffic (easy, we use SSL and lock down the algorithms to only the really strong ones).

  • Some form of physical data protection, involving disk encryption and physical tamper evident packaging.

Obviously we're on our own if we need a tamper-proof product. But what about software for encrpytion. My guess is just using LUKS (although secure) will not be certified because it's open source (gov't seems a bit biased towards proprietary solutions here).

Guardian Edge was mentioned by someone, but that appears to be complete Windows-based. So we need something like it, certified FIPS-140 compliant we can use on Linux.

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