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🧑‍⚖️ FIPS is compliance not security

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FIPS Background If you have ever waded into the alphabet soup of government regulations, you have probably stumbled across FIPS. FIPS stands for . These are cryptographic standards developed and maintained by the US government. In particular, FIPS 140-2 and the newer FIPS 140-3 define how cryptographic modules should be validated. Who actually cares about this? Federal agencies do. Defense…

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