On 07/27/2012 12:34 PM, Vasantharangan, Shruthi M. wrote:
We would like to use a randomNumberGenerator on "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
release 5.6 (Tikanga)" which is FIPS140-2 level2 certified. We have
nss-3.13.5-4.el5_8.i386.rpm (along with nss-tools and nspr) package installed on our
servers. Can we use DRBG with RHEL 5.6?
Thanks
Shruthi
yes, RHEL 5 ships the latest version of NSS, but with the softoken of
NSS 3.11.4.
bob
Yes
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On Behalf Of Robert Relyea
Sent: Friday, 27 July, 2012 3:25 PM
To: dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org
Subject: Re: RandomNumberGenerator that is FIPS2complaint
On 07/25/2012 02:32 PM, Vasantharangan, Shruthi M. wrote:
Hi,
How can run drbg test vectors provided by NIST to validate the response of
the random output for the various algorithms on NSS.
Rgds
Shruthi
Softoken 3.11.4 uses the DSA RNG and not the DRBG (that would be RHEL 6 and
Softoken 3.12.9).
The test vectors were ran internally with some version of fipstest, not
necessarily the one shipping with the system (most likely not shipping with the
system).
Are you trying to do a reval for some reason? For most cases, you simply need
to refer to the FIPS validation
(http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140val-all.htm#814) and
the algorithm validation cert
(http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cavp/documents/rng/rngval.html#208) [ see also
755 and 608 ].
bob
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