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would need to be performed by skilled evaluators with access to vendor
design documentation. e National Information Assurance Partnership
(NIAP) oversees the Common Criteria Evaluation Scheme within the
United States and licenses laboratories to perform these evaluations. Once
a product has been evaluated, it is placed on the validated products list
(VPL; http://niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/vpl/vpl-type.html).
7.1.4.2 Transmission
e transmission of data across the network may be secured through the use of link
encryption, trac ow security, and secure protocols.
◾ Link Encryption—Link encryption is implemented through intelligent
switching nodes to set up encry