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3.5. Information Assurance

3.5.1. List of Standards

SUBAREA / SERVICE CATEGORY CATEGORY / SUBCATEGORY MANDATORY STANDARDS EMERGING NEAR TERM FADING Remarks
    Common Criteria (ISO/IEC 15408-1to-3:2005)     Procedural document dealing with the evaluation criteria for IT security.
    Physical characteristics (ISO/IEC 7810:2003)      
    Integrated circuit(s) with electrical contacts (ISO/IEC 7816:2006)      
    Interface between the card aware applications and cards, PC/SC Specs. 1.0      
    Card-resistance allications, JAVACard      
    Contactless cards (ISO/IEC 14443:2008)      
SMI Service          
      Security Assertion Markup Language, SAML v1.1 (OASIS)   For CCEB interoperability the Security Ascertion Markup Language (SAML) v1.1 is mandatory and SAML 2.0 is emerging
      XKMS (W3C)    
          See General Security Key Management and Distribution.

For CCEB interoperability the mandatory standard is ACP145 (Gateway-to-Gateway Messaging Protocols) and X.500 (based on CMI authentication framework)

Confidentiality          
    S/MIME with Encrypted Security Service (ESS) (IETF RFCs 3850:2004, 3851:2004)   ACP120 replaced by ACP145 Messaging System independent encapsulation syntax supporting signature and confidentiality functions based on DSA.

For CCEB interoperability the standard is S/MIME Version 3 ESS, application layer data confidentiality or link level encryption

    Military Messaging (STANAG 4406 Ed.2)   ACP120 replaced by ACP145 This includes PCT (protected content type). PCT may be used for protection of data objects in systems.

For CCEB interoperability the mandatory standard is ACP145 (Gateway-to-Gateway Messaging Protocols)

      ITU-T X.411:1999    
Encryption          
    TLS v1.2 (IETF RFC 5246:2008)   SSL excluded in NCSP v.6 Used as a transport layer security protocol.
      XML Encryption (W3C)    
    Key Wrap Advanced Encryption Standard 128 (AES 128, NIST FIPS 197) Key Wrap Advanced Encryption Standard 256 (AES 256, NIST FIPS 197)   PKI components and applications should utilise AES for key wrap functions.

AES 256 should be utilized post 2008 for Root CA and Sub CA PKI components together with SHA-384 and 512. End entities can still utilize AES 128 together with SHA-256.

For CCEB interoperability the AES standard is emerging.

Integrity          
    IP ESP (RFC 2406:1998)     Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) may support integrity and authentication depending on the use of algorithms
    Digital Signature Algorithm 1024 (DSA-1024, NIST FIPS 186-2 with Change Notice 1, Oct 2001) Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA 384, NIST FIPS 186-2 with Change Notice 1, Oct 2001) Digital Signature Algorithm (original version) not for new systems Authentication and integrity algorithm for End Entities as mandated by the interoperability protocol PCT for implementing digital signatures for a NATO Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) in the NATO messaging system. ECDSA 384 is planned for post 2008. Guidance is provided in AC/322-D(2004)0035.

For CCEB interoperability the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) NIST FIPS 186-2 is mandatory. DSA FIPS 186-2 can be used in NATO for verification purposes only.

    RSA 2048 (PKCS#1 v2.1 RSA Cryptography Standard, RSA Laboratories, June 2002) Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA 384, NIST FIPS 186-2 with Change Notice 1, Oct 2001)   Authentication and integrity algorithm for Sub CA and other PKI components (such as Key Recovery Agents) as mandated by the interoperability protocol PCT for implementing digital signatures for a NATO Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) in the NATO messaging system. ECDSA 384 is planned for post 2008. Guidance is provided in AC/322-D(2004)0035.

For CCEB interoperability the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) NIST FIPS 186-2 is mandatory.

    Secure Hash Algorithm 256 (SHA-256, NIST FIPS 180-2 with Change Notice 1, Feb 2004) Secure Hash Algorithm 384 (SHA-384, NIST FIPS 180-2 with Change Notice 1, Feb 2004) Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-1), NIST FIPS 180-1 replaced by SHA-256 Hash algorithm to accompany the DSA and RSA for use in NMS. SHA-384 is planned for post 2008. Guidance is provided in AC/322-D(2004)0035.

For CCEB interoperability the standard is SHA-1, NIST FIPS 180-1 is mandatory. SHA-1 can be used in NATO for verification purposes only.

Authentication          
    Radius, IETF RFC 2865:2000 updated by RFC 2868:2000, 3575:2003, 5080:2007 Radius and IPv6, IETF RFC 3162:2001    
      Single sign on (SSO, the Open Group)    
    Dir Authentication Framework (ITU-T X.509 v3, ISO 9594:2001)      
    Identification of Issuers (ISO 7812:2007)      
      XML Signature (W3C)    
      XACML v2.0 (OASIS)    
Detection          
Transsec          

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