Technical Communities

A Collaborative Approach for Protection Profile Development

NIAP has coordinated the production of a white paper (Technical Communities: A Collaborative Approach for Protection Profile Development) outlining our initial efforts focused on the organizational aspects of building a vibrant and collaborative set of Technical Communities to develop, maintain and manage Protection Profiles (PPs) in support of NIAP's goals.

The new PPs are focused on defining technology-specific threats and objectives and outlining the core minimum set of security functional requirements (SFRs) for the technology. The PPs will also establish a set of basic Security Assurance Requirements (SARs) and assurance activities for technology-specific documentation and testing to enable increased consistency among evaluations.

The Technical Communities will consist of an interdisciplinary group of individual with core competencies appropriate for the PP. This group will be a partnership between Industry, Government (US and others from our CCRA partners) and Labs.

See the white paper for details.

A Method for Entropy Source Testing

NIAP Is pleased to provide our Technical Communities, involved in cryptographic requirements, the following white paper to help standardize entropy source testing in random bit generator (RBG) design. This white paper "A Method for Entropy Source Testing: Requirements and Test Suite Description" is for your information and may be distributed as necessary.