FIPS compliance

[jofo]

Hello all,

I am writing some security documentation for work.  A question came up
about whether or not the Linux security packages used for
authentication (krb5) and key management (RSA/DSA for SSH) were FIPS
compliant.

I don't really know.  I know that Kerberos v5 is FIPS compliant and I
know that SSH v2 is FIPS compliant.  However, are the Linux packages
FIPS compliant?

Any ideas how I would verify if they are or not?
Would they be compliant because the underlying algorithm is compliant?

Thanks for any insight.