{"id":14,"date":"2006-04-25T11:49:12","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T15:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2006\/04\/25\/openssl-gets-nist-certifications\/"},"modified":"2006-04-25T11:49:12","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T15:49:12","slug":"openssl-gets-nist-certifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/openssl-gets-nist-certifications\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenSSL gets NIST certifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies setting up sensitive virtual private networks now have an open-source alternative.<\/p>\n<p>The National Institute of Standards and Technology has certified OpenSSL, an open-source library of encryption algorithms, as meeting Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 Level 1 standards, according to the Open Source Software Institute of Hattiesburg, Miss.<\/p>\n<p>?This validation will save us hundreds of thousands of dollars,? said Debora Bonner, operations director for the Defense Department?s Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support program, in a statement. ?Multiple commercial and government entities, including [the Defense Department?s] Medical Health System, have been counting on this validation to avoid massive software licensing expenditures.?<\/p>\n<h3><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gcn.com\/online\/vol1_no1\/38074-1.html?topic=Open_Source\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies setting up sensitive virtual private networks now have an open-source alternative. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has certified OpenSSL, an open-source library of encryption algorithms, as meeting Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 Level 1 standards, according to the Open Source Software Institute of Hattiesburg, Miss. ?This validation will save us hundreds of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}