Is Fuse 7 compliant with FIPS ?

Solution Verified - Updated

Environment

  • Red Hat Fuse 7.x
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) 4.x
  • Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)

Issue

  • Has Fuse 7 been FIPS certified?
  • Is Fuse 7 compliant with FIPS ?
  • Can Fuse 7 be run on FIPS enabled OpenJDK / RHEL?

Resolution

Important: No version of Fuse 7 is FIPS certified and no version of Fuse 7 is FIPS compliant!

Fuse 7 has not undergone official FIPS certification and does not aim to do so.
Fuse 7 is not FIPS compliant either, it may use non FIPS compliant libraries like bouncycastle as a security provider, without providing an alternative.

However, starting from Fuse 7.11 Red Hat supports running Fuse on FIPS enabled OpenJDK / RHEL.
This support excludes Fuse Online but includes Fuse on OpenShift and the various flavors of running Fuse standalone (on Karaf, EAP and Spring Boot).

See KCS Running OpenJDK in FIPS mode on RHEL for more details on how to enable FIPS on RHEL.

Diagnostic Steps

Running Fuse on a FIPS enabled OpenJDK only verifies that Fuse does not break if FIPS is enabled in OpenJDK / RHEL but functions correctly.
Fuse on Karaf as well as the camel-crypto component both register a non FIPS compliant Bouncycastle as a security provider. Hence Fuse 7 is not FIPS compliant.

Fuse has also not undergone any official FIPS certification and there is no such plan for future releases of Fuse 7.

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