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On Jun 14, 2012, at 2:29 PM, JD Mankovsky wrote:

Well you probably are aware of the backlog at NIST...

Hopefully the encryption portion does not change too much from OS to OS moving forward. But well know encryption will continue to evolve overtime.

We where able to take the CDSA FIPS module in Snow Leopard and get it approved in Lion in a shorter turnaround window through NIST. So this should get better moving forward.

JD

On Jun 14, 2012, at 5:20 PM, "Walls, Bryan K. (MSFC-EO50)" <email@hidden> wrote:

Would be nice to have FIPS 140-2 certification before the support window closes in two summers (I'm assuming, based on a yearly release cycle)!

On Jun 14, 2012, at 4:01 PM, JD Mankovsky wrote:

For those of you that want the list of 200 Mountain Lion features... they are posted on Apple's web site

http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html

I am especially found of the Security and System section...

Management tools for FileVault

FileVault in OS X provides new management capabilities using the fdesetup command-line tool. fdesetup allows third-party management tools to enable FileVault, determine encryption status, capture and manage recovery keys, and add users to a FileVault-encrypted system as well as synchronize directory-based user authentication credentials with the local credentials for FileVault access

FIPS 140-2 certification is in progress

Encryption in Mountain Lion is in the process of being certified for FIPS 140-2, the government security standard.

JD

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