Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 specifies requirements for security algorithms. It does not, however, specify requirements for security protocols such as SSL or transport-layer security. FIPS 140-2 is granted by the American and Canadian governments through the National Institute of Standards and Testing (NIST) and the Canadian Communication Security Establishment (CSE). Certicom has earned FIPS certification for security algorithms implemented on Windows.
Sybase IQ offers transport-layer security with the option of using the underlying FIPS-certified algorithms in the Certicom software.
You can use FIPS-certified security algorithms to encrypt your database files, or to encrypt communications for database client/server communication.
