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V-219975

CAT II (Medium)

The operating system must employ FIPS-validate or NSA-approved cryptography to implement digital signatures.

Rule ID

SV-219975r987791_rule

STIG

Solaris 11 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R5

CCIs

CCI-002450

Discussion

FIPS 140-2 is the current standard for validating cryptographic modules, and NSA Type-X (where X=1, 2, 3, 4) products are NSA-certified hardware based encryption modules.

Check Content

This check applies to the global zone only. Determine the zone that you are currently securing.

# zonename

If the command output is "global", this check applies.

The Crypto Management profile is required to execute this command.

Check to ensure that FIPS-140 encryption mode is enabled.

# cryptoadm list fips-140| grep -c "is disabled"

If the output of this command is not "0", this is a finding.

Fix Text

The Crypto Management profile is required to execute this command.

This action applies to the global zone only. Determine the zone that you are currently securing.

# zonename

If the command output is "global", this action applies.

Enable FIPS-140 mode.

# pfexec cryptoadm enable fips-140

Reboot the system as requested.