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Help on interpretation of FIPS-140 paragraph

This is from the FIPS 140-2 standard: Cryptographic keys stored within a cryptographic module shall be stored either in plaintext form or encrypted form. Plaintext secret and private ...
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General Question on FIPS requirements

I understand that FIPS addresses cryptographic operations. My question is, is it addressing exactly this? For example, can an application loading a keystore use a non-FIPS provider? Any input or ...
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Question of importance of FIPS in security implementations

I am by far, no security expert but I experience on the subject working in Java (JCA,JCE and JSSE). Anyway, recently there was a discussion about FIPS compliance. I looked into this and SUN's ...