ACVP Proxy

The ACVP Proxy allows the retrieving of test vectors from the ACVP servers. In addition, it allows the submission of test results to the ACVP servers and to retrieve the verdict of the test results.

The obtained test vectors stored in the files testvector-request.json are intended to be transferred to the test system hosting the cryptographic module to be tested. The JSON file must be inserted into the cryptographic module to produce the testvector-response.json file holding the responses according to the ACVP protocol specification. An example implementation that parses these JSON files, invokes the cryptographic implementation and generates the test response files, see the ACVP Parser.

Runtime-Dependencies

The ACVP Proxy is implemented in clean C99 and requires the presence of the POSIX API. In addition, the ACVP Proxy requires libcurl to be present. This library is commonly available to almost all general purpose operating systems. Other runtime-dependencies are not required. On Apple operating systems, the ACVP Proxy also supports the NSURL API.

The ACVP Proxy was successfully compiled and executed on the following operating systems:

  • Linux

  • macOS

  • Windows

A public git repository is provided at Github.

ACVP Protocol Specification

The ACVP Proxy implements the entire network side of the ACVP Protocol Specification. It implements almost all aspects of the protocol.

Historic Releases

For older releases, see the ACVP Proxy historic page.