I'm piggy backing on what Shawn is saying because I routinely bump into the FIPS and Common Criteria issue.

Common Criteria is actually easier to hand wave around since I haven't seen many systems that stick to CC as documented.

FIPS is more difficult since it is quite concrete and, until that changes, any non-FIPS certified system cannot be used to protect sensitive information.

This is the section from the CMVP website that always hits home:

FIPS 140-2 precludes the use of unvalidated cryptography for the cryptographic protection of sensitive or valuable data within Federal systems. Unvalidated cryptography is viewed by NIST as providing no protection to the information or data - in effect the data would be considered unprotected plaintext. If the agency specifies that the information or data be cryptographically protected, then FIPS 140-2 is applicable. In essence, if cryptography is required, then it must be validated.

Mapping Arch is definitely a good idea but, in theory, you can't do anything that requires data protection, like SSH, until Arch has a FIPS 140-2 approved cryptographic module (or Q4 2018 rolls around and/if the automated system rolls out).

Hopefully this is helpful.

Thanks,

Trevor

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Major Hayden <major@mhtx.net> wrote:
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On 04/17/2017 12:42 PM, bradt@signatureresearchinc.com wrote:
> My name is Tim Bradt. I am software developer at Signature Research, Inc. I have been charged with getting SCAP up and running on some of our systems.
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> We are running Arch Linux. I was wondering what the process would be for porting the RHEL7 guide to Arch as we need the DISA STIG for system approval.

Hello Tim,

As others have mentioned already, the big job is to get an actual standard assembled for Arch Linux.  Once that's done, writing SCAP content or other scripts is much more straightforward.

We've tried to tackle a translation of the RHEL 7 STIG into something that works for CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 16.04:

  https://github.com/openstack/openstack-ansible-security
  https://docs.openstack.org/developer/openstack-ansible-security/

(There's also a RHEL 6 STIG implementation for Ubuntu 14.04, but we're deprecating that now.)

Some of that work may help you figure out how to translate the RHEL 7 STIG requirements for Arch Linux.  Feel free to reach out if you need pointers. :)

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