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FIPS PUB 140-2: Security requirements for cryptographic modules

FIPS PUB 140-2: Security requirements for cryptographic modules

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FIPS PUB 140-2: Security requirements for cryptographic modules

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- [Brad] Welcome back to Cybrary's ISSEP course. I'm your instructor, Brad Rhodes. Let's jump in to FIPS one 140-2, Cryptography. And so FIPS, the word stands for Federal Information Processing Standards. And you might say, "Well, Brad, that's not a NIST special pub." Well, it hasn't become a special pub yet, but it will eventually. The FIPs standards were actually created initially by the National Security Agency in the United States, and they were handed off to NIST. So what are we going to talk about in this video? We're going to talk about security levels that come right out of FIPS. We're going to talk about crypto module interfaces, which are super important. Remember, we talked about those external and internal interfaces previously in the ISSE processes? Well, guess what? This gets really important here. We're going to talk about roles we see, and we're going to talk about the types of operator authentication as it relates to crypto. So, four security levels when it comes to…

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