Several years back with the release of wolfSSL 4.0.0, the wolfSSL team decided to also start releasing a new product: the wolfSSL FIPS Ready library. This product features new, state of the art concepts and technology. In a single sentence, wolfSSL FIPS Ready is a testable and free to download open source embedded SSL/TLS library with support for FIPS validation, with FIPS enabled cryptography layer code included in the wolfSSL source tree. To further elaborate on what FIPS Ready really means, you do not get a FIPS certificate and you are not FIPS validated or approved. FIPS Ready means that you have included FIPS code ready to be certified by the CMVP into your build and that you are operating according to the FIPS enforced best practices of default entry point, and Pre-Operational Self Test (POST) plus Conditional Algorithm self test (CAST).
FIPS validation is a government certification for cryptographic modules that states that the module in question has undergone thorough and rigorous testing to be certified. FIPS validation specifies that a software/encryption module is able to be used within or alongside government systems. The most recent FIPS specification is 140-3, with various levels of security offered (1-4). Currently, wolfCrypt has the world’s first SP800-140Br1 FIPS 140-3 validation with Certificate #4718! When trying to get software modules FIPS validated, this is often a costly and time-consuming effort and as such causes the FIPS validated modules to have high price tags.
Since the majority of wolfSSL products use the wolfCrypt encryption engine, this also means that if wolfSSH, wolfMQTT (with TLS support), wolfBoot, and other wolfSSL products in place can be tested FIPS validated code with their software before committing.
wolfSSL FIPS Ready can be downloaded from the wolfSSL download page.
For more information about wolfSSL and its FIPS Ready initiative, please contact us at facts@wolfSSL.com or +1 425 245 8247.
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