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Designing to FIPS-140: A Guide for Engineers and Programmers
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Designing to FIPS-140: A Guide for Engineers and Programmers

by David Johnston, Richard Fant
April 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
224 pages
4h 48m
English
Apress
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D. Johnston, R. FantDesigning to FIPS-140https://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0125-9_2

2. Core Concepts

David Johnston1   and Richard Fant2
(1)
Hillsboro, OR, USA
(2)
Austin, TX, USA
 

Here, we drill one level down to look at a number of specific technical concepts and defined terms within FIPS 140 and ISO/IEC 19790:2012.

2.1 FIPS 140 Module

A FIPS 140 module is the entity that is certified that it complies with the FIPS 140 standard. A module can take many forms. A USB device, a PCI card, a PC, a rack mounted server, and a subcircuit in a silicon chip are all examples of devices that could be FIPS certified provided that the physical properties, firmware, and software ...

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