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The Tenth International Cryptographic Module Conference
The 10th International Cryptographic Module Conference (ICMC) was held from September 14th to 16th 2022, at the Westin Arlington Gateway in the Washington, D.C. area. Yi Mao, Managing Director for atsec information security, wrote the welcome letter in this year’s program: “Dear ICMC 2022 Participants, A very warm…
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atsec virtually at the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
atsec is excited to have been invited to the virtual kick-off meeting for the “Automation of the NIST Cryptographic Module Validation Program” at the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE). The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) organized the kick-off meeting on June 1st of, 2022. It…
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NIST Entropy Source Validation Server Available
NIST plans to offer a separate validation program apart from FIPS 140 to cover entropy sources: the ESV (Entropy Source Validation) program (hereafter ESVP). As part of the new validation effort, NIST recently launched an automated system to upload the required information in a structured manner: the Entropy…
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FIPS 140-3 Submission Scenarios
FIPS 140-3 has a more detailed set of submission scenarios than FIPS 140-2. It can be daunting to find the right scenario for your situation. The flow diagram below provides an overview and helps to explain the different scenarios. More information can be found in the FIPS 140-3…
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atsec at the 2021 ICMC
Please enjoy this year’s animation from Yi Mao’s opening presentation at the 2021 International Cryptographic Module Conference (ICMC). We also invite you to watch a recording of Yi Mao’s welcome address for the ICMC:
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The Impact of TLS 1.3 and ACVTS on FIPS Certification Testing
by Marcos Portnoi, Stephan Mueller, and Viktoria Meyerhoff In 2018, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) published RFC 8446, “Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3”, a new standard for the latest version of TLS. TLS is the successor of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), which was developed by…
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You Raise Me Up – ICMC 2020
It has become an atsec tradition to produce an animation with an FIPS-relevant topic for the ICMC. This year it has the transition from FIPS 140-2 to FIPS 140-3 as the subject – with a personal touch. Yi Mao presented the animation during her opening speech at the…
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CST Newsletter September 2020
We invite you to take a look at our current newsletter that contains information on algorithm transitions, updates to the FIPS IG and announcements for FIPS 140-2 and FIPS 140-3.
