Mountain Lion finally FIPS 140-2 approved

I have seen no press coverage about this nor mention here in the forums, nor announcement by Apple. Perhaps even Apple are as yet unaware of this
Mountain Lion and iOS 6 have both finally received offical FIPS 140-2 certification. You can see this by going to the following page and searching for Apple.
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140val-all.htm
This should mean it is now possible to use FileVault2 instead of third-party equivalents such as PGP or CheckPoint or Sophos or WinMagic.
(Have I got a news scoop here )
PS. The following article will also be important - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5396

NSS is a set of security libraries written in C so you can certainly use C APIs to access it as well. JSS is the Java interface to NSS. You can either use the JSS API directly or use Sun's PKCS11 wrapper which gives you access to most of the NSS functionalities.

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If found a thread about IPv6.
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Disable IPv6 on _all_ of your IP ethernet adapters.
That includes Virtual Machines (VMWare... yes those too), including IPv6 for wireless.
Close iTunes. Start iTunes. Works. Airplay Icon is back.
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Hi ppl again :)
I found that screen is not disabled, it is only have a very low brightness. So I begin to wait because I saw that actually installer is still running. Finally, Mas OS was installed and after that I change brightness using keyboard (it didn't worked while installation). Now all is ok. I also tried to reboot and system loaded correctly.
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2. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the
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3. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on
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4. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Install button.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5396

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