topic NSA Suite B Cryptography in Wireless

NSA Suite B Cryptography

choclateer — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 03:32:16 GMT

Does anyone know if Cisco is planning to support the new NSA Suite B Cryptography for wireless networks that support government or military workers?

NSA Suite B Cryptography

Nicolas Darchis — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 06:11:17 GMT

The WLC are FIPS certified already. I'm not an expert, but isn't the nsa suite B much older than the current fips certification that the wlc got ?

NSA Suite B Cryptography

choclateer — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:03:05 GMT

Thanks, I think you are right. There are many FIPS standards, FIPS 186-2 and 3 are for Suite B. NSA's website sais Cisco is certified on the MDS9500 switches, then they say

"The openssl crypto library is used on the Nexus7K supervisor to implement crypto operations in software."

I guess they will use the same library routines in other devices.

The ASAs and 3000 VPN concentrators are also listed on the NSA website. But the WLC is not specifically listed.

NSA Suite B Cryptography

Nicolas Darchis — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:15:48 GMT

The WLC is fips 140-1 certified if I'm not mistaken.

As far as I understood it's usually enough for US government organization and workers.

Now, don't ask me the differences 🙂