NIAP Oversees Evaluations of Commercial IT Products for Use in National Security Systems

Short Name: pp_cimc_sl2_v1.0

Technology Type: Certificate Authority

CC Version: 2.x

Date: 2001.10.31

Sunset Date: 2008.03.21

Conformance Claim: EAL2 Augmented

Protection Profile 

PP OVERVIEW

Herewith a brief summary, sufficiently detailed to enable a potential user to determine whether the PP is of interest.

Certificate Issuing and Management Components (CIMCs) may consist of one of more devices that are responsible for the issuance, revocation, and overall management of certificates and certificate status information. The CIMC PPs in this document define the minimum-security requirements for CIMCs for use in a variety of environments. These environments are summarized below and are described in detail in Section 2. The requirements for FIPS 140-1 validated cryptographic modules and specific FIPS 140-1 levels are based on the level of risk and specific threats identified for each CIMC PP. The FIPS 140-1 requirements are intended to provide additional assurance.

SECURITY EVALUATION SUMMARY

The security and assurance requirements specified at Security Level 2 are intended for environments where there is a threat of malicious activity, but the authorized users of the PKI are not malicious, and the risks and consequences of data disclosure are not significant. Security Level 2 requirements add protection against network attacks by malicious users through enhanced authentication failure handling. The EAL for Security Level 2 is EAL 2 augmented.

ENVIRONMENTAL STRENGTHS

Because a PP is written to be implementation-independent, there may be some ambiguities that do not arise until a specific implementation is being evaluated against it. When this happens, a resolution is established through the Observation Decision (OD) process in the form of a Precedent Decision (PD), which is to be used consistently in subsequent evaluations involving the PP in question. The Precedent Decisions specifically associated with this PP are listed below:

ASSURANCE MAINTENANCE

This U.S. Government Approved Protection Profile is not assigned to any Validated Products

This U.S. Government Approved Protection Profile does not have any related Technical Decisions