Re: RE: Migrating Bouncy Castle keypairs to FIPS 140-2 compliant key store BCFKS

Actually the module does validate keys on import - there's a bit written
about how and why to do this in the NIST special publications. Of
course, that doesn't prevent some external app from doing something
improper with one of the keys either now or in the past or future. In
that respect if you are trying to migrate to FIPS compliance it is
better to rekey if you can, then you can be sure that whatever your new
security policy turns out to be, your keys have only been used in
accordance with it.

Regards,

David

On 16/9/19 4:41 pm, Eckenfels. Bernd wrote:
> Strictly speaking, if you do not create a key with a compliant solution, the key is not compliant. However unless it has glaring security weakness you cannot see if the key is generated with a compliant solution or not.
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> However if you aim for a compliant solution and maybe even need to certify this, why not take the opportunity and rekey.
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> (Of course in most cases FIPS 140-2 level 1 is just a security theatre, in that case nobody cares about things like usage restrictions (csr selfsigning) or imported key material.)
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> Gruss
> Bernd
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> From: Prateek Kumar [Prateek.Kumar-WGr35GCoQU9Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]]
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> From: Prateek Kumar <Prateek.Kumar-WGr35GCoQU9Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Migrating Bouncy Castle keypairs to FIPS 140-2 compliant key store BCFKS
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> Hi,
>
> Could anyone please advise on this requirement for our Java-webapp.
>
> We have created keypairs (RSA and DH) using the non-FIPS Bouncy Castle provider in a .bks keystores, and now we are trying to replace the provider with the FIPS 140-2 compliant BC FIPS at https://downloads.bouncycastle.org/fips-java/bc-fips-1.0.2.jar
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> For an existing deployment containing these keypairs in .bks (which already exist) is there any way to:
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> * Migrate them into .bcfks keystores which is the compliant keystore (and any code samples to do so).
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> * "Convert" these keypairs (with same algorithms/mode/padding/keysizes as the ones chosen at creation time were already compliant, but created using standard Bouncy Castle jars) into versions that would be FIPS compliant, or as if they'd been created with the BC FIPS version. I don't know if this is possible and in documentation at https://downloads.bouncycastle.org/fips-java/BC-FJA-UserGuide-1.0.2.pdf (Page 66 Appendix E), all I'm seeing is converting between JCE keypairs to low-level FIPS key-primitives.
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> Thanks,
> Prateek Kumar
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