Setting up compliance for FIPS 140-2

IBM® Sametime® supports the U.S. government-defined security requirements for cryptographic modules known as FIPS 140-2 (Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2). If your Sametime deployment must maintain FIPS 140-compliance for all data exchanged between clients and Sametime Community Servers, you must install the FIPS Server on the Sametime Proxy Server to accept data on behalf of Sametime Community Servers.

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If your organization uses FIPS security, you should configure FIPS for your Sametime deployment as well. If you configured Transport Layer Security on the Sametime Community Server, you can additionally configure it to comply with FIPS requirements.