# FIPSified!

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**Created:** [April 19, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/fipsified/23873 "2013-04-19T23:20:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/fipsified/23873/1 "2013-04-19T23:20:45Z")

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FIPSified!  
18-Apr-2013 22:48

FIPS? – You may have heard about MIPS or about ECLIPSE, but FIPS? Granted, the U.S. “Federal Information Processing Standard” does not sound like the coolest thing to talk about on a sunny spring day. Yet, we are happy to have achieved\*SUSE’s first-ever FIPS 140-2 validation for OpenSSL last week. See:[http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140sp/140sp1930.pdf](http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140sp/140sp1930.pdf). The validation was conducted … [+read more](https://www.suse.com/communities/conversations/fipsified/)

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