FreeBSD becoming NIST FIPS 140-3 compliant
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A key component for FreeBSD becoming NIST FIPS 140-3 compliant was completed when FreeBSD upgraded from OpenSSL 3.0 to 3.5. One of the other requirements for FIPS 140-3 (and post-quantum cryptography) is having sufficient random entropy in the system to generate sufficiently random numbers. NIST SP800-90B provides some guidelines on how to achieve that…
PS: This strikes me as a significant development, which is why I am posting it here
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