The operating system must employ FIPS-validate or NSA-approved cryptography to implement digital signatures.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000173-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000173-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000173-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Cryptography is only as strong as the encryption modules/algorithms employed to encrypt the data. Use of weak or un-tested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding - SSH (Protocol 2 is default) is disabled by default (requirement of Lockdown Mode). All versions of VMware products, including all releases of vCenter Server use X.509 certificates to encrypt session information sent over SSL (secure sockets layer protocol) connections between server and client components such as ESXi-v5. CA certs are also addressed in the VMware HG.

Description

Cryptography is only as strong as the encryption modules/algorithms employed to encrypt the data. Use of weak or un-tested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding - SSH (Protocol 2 is default) is disabled by default (requirement of Lockdown Mode). All versions of VMware products, including all releases of vCenter Server use X.509 certificates to encrypt session information sent over SSL (secure sockets layer protocol) connections between server and client components such as ESXi-v5. CA certs are also addressed in the VMware HG.

STIG	Date
VMware ESXi v5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-01-15

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000173-ESXI5-PNF_chk )
ESXi supports this requirement and cannot be configured to be out of compliance. This is a permanent not a finding.

Fix Text (F-SRG-OS-000173-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.