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Chapter 19 Using the SSL Protocol : Enabling FIPS Compliance

Enabling FIPS Compliance
You can enable TIBCO Enterprise Message Service to run in compliance with Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), Publication 140-2.
Enabling the EMS Server
The EMS server supports FIPS compliance only on Windows, Linux, and Solaris 10 (x86) platforms. On UNIX, only tibemsd64, the 64-bit version of the server, is supported. No 32-bit support is provided.
To enable FIPS 140-2 operations in the EMS server:
Set the fips140-2 parameter in the main configuration file to true.
When fips140-2 is enabled, on start-up the EMS server initializes in compliance with FIPS 140-2. If the initialization is successful, the EMS server prints a message indicating that it is operating in this mode. If the initialization fails, the server exits (regardless of the startup_abort_list setting).
Incompatible Parameters
In order to operate in FIPS compliant mode, you must not include these parameters in the tibemsd.conf file:
These parameters cannot be included in the routes.conf file:
Enabling EMS Clients
Java and C client applications can operate in FIPS compliance:
Java Clients  Java clients that use the Entrust implementation of SSL, rather than the JSSE that is included with EMS, can operate in FIPS 140-2 complaint mode.
To enable FIPS 140-2 operations in the Java client:
Set the com.tibco.security.FIPS property to true before calling any EMS methods.
For more information about using Entrust, see Configuring SSL in EMS Clients.
C Clients  C clients that link to the dynamic EMS libraries can operate in FIPS 140-2 compliant mode. FIPS compliance is not available with static libraries.
To enable FIPS 140-2 operations in the C client, use compliant OpenSSL libraries, and initialize the libraries to enable FIPS 140-2 operations before calling any EMS functions.
 

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