Comment Is windows key storage FIPS compliant?? (Score 1) 95
Because the author is saying that it uses password & some session key to encrypt. That means, it must be internally generating encryption key from password & encrypt. As for FIPS, password based key derivation functions are not allowed in FIPS mode [PBKDF. I think it is PKCS#5].
One key storage solution is using FIPS compliant hardware to store the keys [using pkcs#11].
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