Wow. It looks like the Feds are slowly — oh, soooo slowly — creeping into the late 20th century:<\/p>\n
Agencies setting up sensitive virtual private networks now have an open-source alternative.<\/p>\n
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has certified OpenSSL, an open-source library of encryption algorithms, as meeting Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 Level 1 standards, according to the Open Source Software Institute of Hattiesburg, Miss.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This validation will save us hundreds of thousands of dollars,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Debora Bonner, operations director for the Defense Department\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support program, in a statement. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Multiple commercial and government entities, including [the Defense Department\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s] Medical Health System, have been counting on this validation to avoid massive software licensing expenditures.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Federal agencies must use FIPS-compliant products to secure networks carrying unclassified sensitive data. The FIPS certification of OpenSSL opens the possibility of using an SSL-based VPN to carry sensitive data, according to Peter Sargent, who heads the Severna Park, Md.-based PreVal Specialist Inc., one of the companies that supported the validation process.<\/p>\n
Traditionally, agencies wishing to set up a VPN for sensitive data would use an approach that involved a secret key implementation of a cryptographic module, which is more expensive to implement and has limited the number of smaller companies that can provide such a product, Sargent said.<\/p>\n
(from Government Computer News<\/a>, OpenSSL gets NIST certifications<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This is great news for Federal agencies. And you would think that switching to OpenSSL would be a no-brainer, right? After all, out here in the real world, we’ve been relying on it for years. However, there is nothing so simple and easy that the Feds can’t find a way to screw it up:<\/p>\n
Sargent added that few agencies would directly deploy OpenSSL FIPS. Rather, they would purchase OpenSSL-based VPN products from vendors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
“Yes, yes: I know we could<\/em> get sunlight for free. But we’d rather pay<\/em> for it. This tax money isn’t going to spend itself, you know.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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