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Society recognizes cryptography’s important role in protecting sensitive information from unauthorized disclosure or modification. However, the correct and bug-free implementation of a cryptographic algorithm and the environment in which it executes are critical for security. To assess the security aspects related to real hardware and software cryptographic implementations, NIST established the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) in 1995 to validate cryptographic modules against the...