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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4
System Settings
Network Configuration and Firewalls
Transport Layer Security Support
Transport Layer Security Support
An XCCDF Group - A logical subset of the XCCDF Benchmark
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Transport Layer Security Support
Support for Transport Layer Security (TLS), and its predecessor, the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), is included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the OpenSSL software (RPM package
openssl
). TLS provides encrypted and authenticated network communications, and many network services include support for it. TLS or SSL can be leveraged to avoid any plaintext transmission of sensitive data.
For information on how to use OpenSSL, see
http://www.openssl.org/docs/
. Information on FIPS validation of OpenSSL is available at
http://www.openssl.org/docs/fips.html
and
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140val-all.htm
.