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70 -- ADPE - COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF PUBLIC KEY INFRASTRUCTURE AND ASSOCIATED CLIENT SERVICES POC Jerry Odegard, Program Official, (301) 903-5860 Jerry Odegard, Program Official, (301) 903-5860. The U.S. Department of Energy has a requirement to purchase from a single vendor a perpetual, DOE-wide corporate license for a commercial-off-the-shelf public key infrastructure (PKI) and associated client services. The complete set of requirements is contained in the document titled ''PKI Specifications to Support the DOE Travel Manager Program'' which was prepared by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Computer Security Division and is available on the Internet at http://www.hr.doe.gov/ucsp/. The infrastructure consists of a single certification authority (CA), multiple organizational registration authorities (ORAs), and a distributed directory service (DS). This infrastructure will issue X.509 V3 certificates and V2 CRLs. Users will execute applications on their local system, using hardware or software cryptographic modules as required by their roles. The application interface will provide a simple, high-level interface to security services. Cryptographic modules must have been validated under the FIPS 140-1 validation program and shall include validated implementations of DSS, SHA-1, and DES. A copy of the vendor's letter of affirmation sent to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), as required by the FIPS 140-1 program, should be submitted as part of the response to this request for information. Vendors that can provide software and services that meet these requirements should submit complete technical details and price information to be received no later than 15 days from the date of this publication to: Mr. Jerry Odegard, CR-50, 19901 Germantown Road, Germantown, MD 20874-1290. This is not a request for formal quotation or proposal, but is provided as information to the marketplace and is an invitation to express interest in providing all of the products described. See Numbered Note(s): 22. (0242)

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