1.142 SOL-11.1-060060

Information

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

GROUP ID: V-219975
RULE ID: SV-219975r987791

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.

Solution

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.

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23765