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The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN IKE must use NIST FIPS-validated cryptography to implement encryption services for unclassified VPN traffic.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of using encryption to protect data. The network element must implement cryptographic modules adhering to the higher standards approved by the federal government since this provides assurance they have been tested and validated.

ID
SV-214691r1056097_rule
Version
JUSX-VN-000024
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

The following example commands configure the IKE (phase 1) proposal.

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set security ike proposal <P1-PROPOSAL> authentication-method rsa-signatures
set security ike proposal p1-proposal dh-group group19
set security ike proposal p1-proposal authentication-algorithm sha-384