# ISO/IEC TS 20540:2018 — Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards For ISO/IEC TS 20540:2018, item title is Information technology — Security techniques — Testing cryptographic modules in their operational environment; status code is 9599; successor is ISO/IEC TS 20540:2025; withdrawn / published date is 2018-05-18, recorded from its source on 2026-08-05. - **Identifier:** ISO/IEC TS 20540:2018 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Item title:** Information technology — Security techniques — Testing cryptographic modules in their operational environment _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Status code:** 9599 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Successor:** ISO/IEC TS 20540:2025 - **Withdrawn / published date:** 2018-05-18 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ ## What the source says > 68294,TS,,ISO/IEC TS 20540:2018,Information technology — Security techniques — Testing cryptographic modules in their operational environment,Technologies de l'information — Techniques de sécurité — Test de modules cryptographiques dans leur environnement d'exploitation,2018-05-18,1,['35.030'],ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27,9599,,[84247],['en'],39,"
This document provides recommendations and checklists which can be used to support the specification and operational testing of cryptographic modules in their operational environment within an organization's security system.
The cryptographic modules have four security levels which ISO/IEC 19790 defines to provide for a wide spectrum of data sensit ## Source - https://isopublicstorageprod.blob.core.windows.net/opendata/_latest/iso_deliverables_metadata/csv/iso_deliverables_metadata.csv Last verified: 2026-08-05. Review by: 2027-02-01. Part of [Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards](https://referencesource.org/iso-standard-supersessions/).