We do have an installed_OS_is_certified check to handle verification that
an OS is vendor
supported, and to some degree, is a FIPS certified system.

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 2:53 PM Trevor Vaughan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Actually, Mark, you've kind of nailed it on the head for me.
>
> I would like to be able to know that the system is the way it's *supposed*
> to be instead of just kind of doing my best and hoping that something
> didn't break.
>
> I was hoping that the validated modules area would have an XML file or
> something that could be downloaded and processed :-|.
>
> Anyway, it seems like it would be an appropriate addition to the SCAP
> scans since there is already the requirement to be enabled being checked
> for various profiles. I was just hoping that someone had magically created
> it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Trevor
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 3:59 PM Mark Thacker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> We've definitely talked about this and there isn't a clear programmatic
>> means to achieve this.
>> Of course, we do log which specific version of the libraries that we
>> build and test against in our certification report. So, those could be used
>> to compare a running system against the certification report.
>>
>> Yes, I also understand that sometimes the desire is to be able to show
>> that CentOS or Fedora is NOT FIPS certified verses RHEL. Of course, that
>> assumes that the RHEL you are running on IS actually certified.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 3:39 PM Gabe Alford <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Outside of going to
>>> https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/validated-modules/search
>>> and clicking `search` with empty search parameters, don't know of
>>> anything.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 1:33 PM Trevor Vaughan <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know of a project that can correlate the running operating
>>>> system with the latest information on the FIPS 140 approved products list.
>>>>
>>>> Basically, I'm looking for a command where I can run something like
>>>> `fipscertified` and get back a `0` or `1` based on the result of the
>>>> latest/updated data.
>>>>
>>>> Bonus points, I'd love to be able to point it at apps and have it tell
>>>> me, but that's a long shot given the statically compiled wonderland we all
>>>> seem to be living in these days.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Trevor
>>>>
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