tags: #publish links: [[FIPS]], created: 2021-07-26 Mon --- # FIPS 140-2 **Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules** A Federal Information Processing Standard dating from 2001, approving cryptographic modules (i.e. things that store and use encryption keys). There are 4 levels of security, with the higher levels requiring various physical tamper-protection and isolation. Since 2019 there is a successor, [[FIPS 140-3]] but as of 2021 nothing has been certified valid against that yet.