Big Sur - Ensure all Federal Laws, Executive Orders, Directives, Policies, Regulations, Standards, and Guidance for Authentication to a Cryptographic Module are Met

Information

The inherent configuration of the macOS _IS_ in compliance by implementing mechanisms for authentication to a cryptographic module that meet the requirements of all applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance for such authentication

macOS contains many open source projects that may use their own cryptographic libraries typically for the purposes of maintaining platform independence. These services are not covered by the Apple FIPS Validation of the CoreCrypto and CoreCrypto Kernel modules.

macOS Big Sur is in process of testing from an accredited laboratory to submit the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for FIPS validation.

link:https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/modules-in-process/IUT-List[]

link:https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201159[]

Solution

The technology inherently meets this requirement. No fix is required.

See Also

https://github.com/usnistgov/macos_security

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-7, CCE|CCE-85373-9, CCI|CCI-000803

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 749e452276be7b2a6ec71f1076f84a41d799aa47e170891a65a883dc90c883b9