Edit 20-March-2019: NIAP published a v1.1 of the Functional Package which addresses many of the item discussed in this blog. The title of the blog is updated and ambiguities previously found are corrected where they’ve been addressed. NIAP recently released …
SSH Rekey Limits with OpenSSH
Since this article was posted, the international Network Interpretations Team has issued RFI 201824 stating that the send and receive keys can be independently rekeyed. Therefore, the requirement that the ‘aggregate’ traffic be counted is no longer mandated according to …
Secure Tunnelled NTP Proof of Concept
Update 2018-Oct-03: This post has been updated within new information from NDcPP v2.1. Recently, NIAP issued Technical Decision TD0321: Protection of NTP communications. It states that network time sources are critical pieces of information that must be protected. However, having …
On the Road with Mobile Certifications
At Lightship Security, we are all about certifying at the speed of development. Therefore, we are proud to announce our new mobile certifications laboratory. With over 1200 cubic feet of interior high-tech laboratory goodness, we can handle even your most …
Gathering Raw Unconditioned Entropy in a Live Linux System
As part of our continued product development efforts supporting assurance modernization, the Lightship team sometimes develop useful experimental tools or proofs of concepts. A while ago we developed a proof of concept to extract raw unconditioned entropy from a live …
Quantitative Analysis of Entropy
[Jan 12, 2018 update: With the final release of NIST SP 800-90B, we’ve updated this post to reflect the new published status of this NIST SP as well as to correct any differences between rev2 and the final publication.] …
Code for NIST Entropy Health Testing
[Jan 12, 2018 update: With the final release of NIST SP 800-90B, we’ve updated the sample health test code to match the minor changes between rev2 and the final version. The narrative of this post with respect to requirements for …
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