Re:Vulnerabilities exploited in VPN products used worldwide
by antpls on Saturday October 05, 2019 @04:11AM
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That post yesterday : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21147865 shows a side channel attack on smartcards. In the links we can see the FIPS140-compliant affected hardwares. Maybe it contributes to show that FIPS140-02 is not as much a reference than it used to be?
And if you really are negating FIPS140-X and what it means to large organizations and government entities... you should do some reading to understand why it exists. It isn't standards hand-waving. It is fairly in-depth and aims to ensure your cryptographic primitives and low level operations are not totally fucked out of the box.
It doesn't solve most security issues by a long shot, but it does try to give you some minimum levels of assurance that it doesn't totally suck crypto operations-wise.
Anyways - I up-voted your reply regardless because I wanted to engage in some meaningful dialogue, and I believe we have. Cheers!