Cryptography for Your Technology Stack
Deploy and maintain FIPS 140-3 validated, post-quantum ready cryptographic software across your product portfolio—from cloud microservices and enterprise servers to mobile, embedded, IoT, appliance, and long-lived enterprise systems.
Unified Cryptography Across Fragmented Deployment Environments
Modern software portfolios rarely run in a single environment. A single product line might span cloud-native microservices, physical network appliances, mobile clients, and resource-constrained embedded systems.
Managing cryptography across a fragmented stack introduces three immediate hurdles:
Technical compatibility does not guarantee that a deployment is covered by the intended FIPS 140-3 validation. Teams must confirm that the production configuration aligns with the applicable validation documentation.
Introducing NIST-standardized algorithms such as ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA without a unified strategy can create architectural fragmentation, resource constraints, and additional release complexity.
Cryptography can be distributed across application code, libraries, operating systems, hosts, cloud infrastructure, certificates, network services, and runtime environments. Without a unified inventory, teams may struggle to identify which implementations create risk or should be modernized first.
SafeLogic helps teams manage this complexity across the cryptographic lifecycle. SafeLogic CPM provides continuous discovery, inventory, and cryptographic posture management across heterogeneous environments. CryptoComply provides FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic software across supported product environments, while SafePQ supports broader post-quantum deployment, hybrid migration, and crypto-agility across complex enterprise environments.
Cryptography Across Stack Environments
Support varies by SafeLogic product, operating system, CPU architecture, runtime, software version, and validation requirements. Contact SafeLogic to confirm coverage for your exact target environment.
Appliance Cryptography
Network, security, and storage appliances combine dedicated hardware with tightly controlled software stacks.
Key considerations: Linux and Unix environments, fixed processor architectures, static or dynamic linking requirements, cryptographic interfaces, and multi-year product lifecycles.
CryptoComply Core provides OpenSSL-compatible validated cryptography for supported appliance environments, helping teams standardize cryptographic integration across product platforms.
Cloud Cryptography
Cloud-native workloads demand scalable cryptography for distributed services, APIs, and high-concurrency environments.
Key considerations: Stateless scaling, containerized workloads, automated deployment pipelines, high-volume cryptographic operations, and the effect of post-quantum algorithms on latency, bandwidth, and throughput.
CryptoComply provides validated cryptographic software for supported Linux, Windows Server, application runtime, and cloud deployment environments.
Embedded Cryptography
Embedded devices often operate under strict computational, power, storage, and memory constraints.
Key considerations: Real-time operating systems (RTOS), cross-compilation, fixed hardware targets, entropy availability, resource constraints, and long field-deployment lifecycles.
CryptoComply RTOS provides FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic software for supported real-time operating environments, including Wind River VxWorks.
IoT Cryptography
IoT architectures can span constrained endpoints, edge gateways, applications, and cloud backends.
Key considerations: Device identity, secure communications, firmware and software updates, key establishment and lifecycle management, resource-constrained hardware, and long-lived deployed devices.
SafeLogic helps teams establish a more consistent cryptographic foundation across IoT architectures while preparing devices and supporting infrastructure for future post-quantum migration.
Mainframe and Legacy Enterprise Systems
Long-lived enterprise platforms may depend on established cryptographic interfaces and applications that cannot easily be re-engineered.
Key considerations: Legacy application dependencies, established cryptographic interfaces, long hardware and software lifecycles, integration with newer distributed systems, hybrid on-premises and cloud architectures, and phased cryptographic modernization.
CryptoComply can support broader cryptographic modernization initiatives spanning modern and legacy enterprise environments, while SafeLogic can help evaluate validated cryptography requirements for specific target platforms and integrations.
Mobile Cryptography
Mobile applications require cryptography that accounts for platform-specific sandboxing, packaging, OS updates, device diversity, and hardware constraints.
Key considerations: iOS and Android application environments, app distribution requirements, application size, battery consumption, variable network bandwidth, memory utilization, and the impact of post-quantum algorithms.
CryptoComply Mobile provides FIPS 140-3 validated, post-quantum ready cryptographic software for supported native iOS, iPadOS, and Android applications.
Server Cryptography
On-premises, virtualized, and cloud-hosted servers remain central to enterprise applications, security platforms, APIs, infrastructure products, and backend workloads.
Key considerations: Multiple application runtimes, high transaction volumes, operating-system diversity, processor architecture, cryptographic interfaces, and performance under high-concurrency workloads.
CryptoComply Core provides OpenSSL-compatible cryptographic software for supported server environments, while CryptoComply Go, CryptoComply Java, and CryptoComply .NET provide runtime-specific options for supported applications and operating environments.
Navigating FIPS 140-3 Validation
Across the Stack
FIPS 140-3 validation applies to a defined cryptographic module and documented operating environments and configurations. Relevant deployment factors can include the operating system, processor architecture, runtime, compiler and toolchain, linking model, entropy infrastructure, and cryptographic configuration.
SafeLogic helps teams manage validation requirements as technology environments evolve:
Post-Quantum Migration Impact
by Stack Layer
NIST-standardized post-quantum algorithms introduce different key sizes, signatures, memory requirements, and computational workloads than classical cryptography.
ENVIRONMENT LAYER
Primary Post-Quantum Considerations
Cloud & Server
Bandwidth, key establishment and signature performance, latency, high-concurrency workloads
Mobile
Application size, memory use, battery consumption, bandwidth, device diversity
Embedded & IoT
Memory and storage limits, processor capacity, bandwidth, deterministic or resource-constrained operation
Appliances
Protocol compatibility, resource constraints, fixed architectures, long product lifecycles
Legacy Enterprise
Application compatibility, existing cryptographic interfaces, phased migration, integration with modern systems
Testing should take place on representative target environments and, where possible, the actual production hardware rather than assuming performance and resource requirements will remain consistent across architectures.
Evaluating Cryptographic Software:
Technical Checklist
Cryptographic Visibility
Can you identify and continuously inventory cryptography across application code, libraries, operating systems, hosts, certificates, network services, cloud infrastructure, and runtime environments?
Environment Coverage
Does the vendor support your specific combination of operating system, CPU architecture, runtime, and execution model?
Runtime Compatibility
Can your developers use the languages, runtimes, and cryptographic interfaces already deployed across your products?
FIPS 140-3 Validation Alignment
Does your intended production configuration align with the applicable certificate, Security Policy, and supporting validation documentation?
Post-Quantum Support
Does the software support NIST-standardized post-quantum algorithms and hybrid classical/post-quantum approaches as migration requirements evolve?
Crypto-Agility
Can algorithms, implementations, or cryptographic configurations evolve without extensive application redesign?
Certificate Ownership
Can your organization obtain a FIPS 140 certificate associated with its own company and product, or will it rely on another vendor's validation?
Lifecycle Maintenance
Is there an established process for maintaining validated cryptography as operating systems, hardware, toolchains, algorithms, and product configurations change?
SafeLogic Solutions for Your
Technology Stack
SafeLogic CPM
Cryptographic Posture Management for organizations that need continuous visibility into cryptography across complex technology environments.
SafeLogic CPM continuously discovers cryptographic assets and correlates findings into a unified inventory. Discovery can span application code, CI/CD pipelines, cryptographic libraries and operating systems, certificates and network TLS, host environments, cloud infrastructure, and targeted runtime telemetry.
By connecting cryptographic findings with operational and business context, SafeLogic CPM helps teams identify risk, prioritize remediation, support post-quantum planning, and maintain ongoing cryptographic governance.
SafeLogic CPM can also support continuously maintained cryptographic inventory and standards-based CycloneDX CBOM generation for compliance evidence, audit readiness, risk management, and modernization planning.
Cryptocomply
FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic software for regulated applications, appliances, mobile products, enterprise systems, servers, and embedded environments.
CryptoComply Core: OpenSSL-compatible cryptographic software for supported Linux, Unix, Windows, cloud, server, appliance, and embedded environments.
CryptoComply Mobile: Validated and post-quantum ready cryptographic software for supported iOS, iPadOS, and Android applications.
CryptoComply RTOS: FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic software for supported real-time operating environments, including Wind River VxWorks.
CryptoComply Go, CryptoComply Java, and CryptoComply .NET: Runtime-specific cryptographic software for supported application and operating environments.
SAFEPQ
Enterprise post-quantum cryptographic infrastructure for organizations modernizing cryptography across complex cloud, mobile, on-premises, application, and legacy environments.
SafePQ provides NIST-standardized post-quantum algorithms, hybrid migration support, enterprise-grade software delivery, and a foundation for broader cryptographic posture management and crypto-agility.
Technology Stack Cryptography FAQs
Does FIPS 140-3 validation cover every environment where the software can run?
No. Technical compatibility and FIPS 140-3 operating-environment coverage are different considerations.
Teams should review the applicable certificate, Security Policy, and supporting validation documentation to determine whether an intended deployment configuration is covered.
How does post-quantum cryptography affect low-power IoT and embedded systems?
Post-quantum algorithms have different key, ciphertext, signature, memory, and processing characteristics than classical cryptography. Depending on the algorithm and application, those differences can increase memory or storage requirements, transmission sizes, bandwidth usage, or processing time on resource-constrained systems.
Teams should benchmark post-quantum cryptography on representative target devices rather than assuming performance will remain consistent across hardware environments.
What is crypto-agility?
Crypto-agility is the ability to change cryptographic algorithms, implementations, configurations, or providers without extensive redesign of the applications and infrastructure that depend on them.
This can make it easier to respond to evolving cryptographic standards, vulnerabilities, compliance requirements, and post-quantum migration needs.
How does SafeLogic CPM support cryptography across a diverse technology stack?
SafeLogic CPM provides continuous cryptographic discovery and inventory across application code, software libraries, operating systems, host environments, cloud infrastructure, certificates, network services, and targeted runtime telemetry.
This visibility helps teams understand where cryptography is deployed, identify implementations that may create risk, prioritize remediation, support CBOM generation, and track cryptographic posture as environments change.
Standardize Cryptography
Across Your Technology Stack
Managing separate cryptographic implementations across every deployment environment increases engineering, compliance, and lifecycle complexity.
SafeLogic helps teams discover, deploy, and maintain cryptography across diverse cloud, server, mobile, appliance, embedded, IoT, and enterprise environments. SafeLogic CPM provides visibility and governance across the cryptographic estate, CryptoComply delivers validated cryptographic software for supported product environments, and SafePQ supports broader post-quantum modernization.
Build a more consistent cryptographic foundation today while preparing your products and infrastructure for the algorithms and requirements ahead.
