Re: [Fed-Talk] FIPS 140-2 for OS X
Re: [Fed-Talk] FIPS 140-2 for OS X
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] FIPS 140-2 for OS X
- From: "Link, Peter R." <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:27:34 -0700
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] FIPS 140-2 for OS X
That will work for third-party application users, like Entrust, but only with their software and when NIST finishes the FIPS update of the older encryption software being currently certified. You can't use it for FileVault-2 and probably not anything related to Disk Utility.
On Mar 14, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Jon Callas wrote:
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> On Mar 14, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Michael Kluskens wrote:
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>> Based on discussions on this list and <http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1372> I trust OS X 10.6 can be configured to run in FIPS-140-2 mode after installing the Apple FIPS module.
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>> What about OS X 10.7 ?
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>> The only obvious option is to downgrade all machines to 10.6 and not buy any new Apple laptops since there is not an Apple FIPS-140-2 module for OS X 10.7 ? (the pain of being a small piece of the market, i.e. DoD)
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>> Apparently we have sort of deadline we have to meet within a couple weeks, so the stock answer that Apple is working on it will not pass muster.
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>> Is there alternative FIPS-140-2 software for OS X 10.7 ?
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> The FIPS-140 module for OS X is unchanged between Snow Leopard and Lion. It's all still the same.
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> Can you just keep going with that?
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> Jon
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