Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Can FIPS be enforced by the network?

I'm a software engineer with very little networking knowledge. I'm working on an embedded Linux device and was tasked with trying to automate the enabling of FIPS settings depending on the wifi network the user is connecting to.

I've tried Google but I'm not finding a good answer. Could a wifi network require the device have FIPS enabled (be FIPS compliant) before allowing a connection? Particularly on WPA2 Personal networks. The legacy code seems to automatically turn our FIPS setting on when connecting to and "TLS" enabled network, and off when connecting to a "PEAP MSCHAPv2" network.

I hope this makes sense.

Thank you in advance for your time.



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