What is the Common Criteria Mutual Recognition List?
Following the development of the Common Criteria, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Security Agency, in cooperation and collaboration with the U.S. State Department, worked closely with their partners in the CC Project to produce a mutual recognition arrangement for IT security evaluations that use the Common Criteria. In October 1998, after two years of intense negotiations, government organizations from the United States, Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom signed this historic recognition arrangement for Common Criteria-based IT security evaluations. The Arrangement is officially known as the Arrangement on the Mutual Recognition of Common Criteria Certificates in the field of IT Security. It states that each Participant will recognize evaluations performed using the Common Criteria evaluation methodology where product certificates have been issued by the Mutually Recognized producing nations for EAL1 to EAL4 evaluations. (Note: Evaluati
