Reading and validating further documentation

Read through the FIPS 140-2 document sent by Alison regarding the acceptable cryptographic component and acceptable algorithm. Well here's my finding so far, GridFTP uses a x.509 certificate which has 3 main variables -
the certificate, the certificate signature algorithm and the certificate signature. The certificate has attributes such as version, algorithm ID, serial number, issuer, subject, validity, subject public key info, extensions and several other optional ones like subject and issuer unique identifier. The subject public key info attribute is further detailed by the public key algorithm and subject public key, while validity attribute comes has further options for an upper and lower date limit, which eventually decides the life of the certificate. The public key algorithm used is RSA which according to the same email by Alison is part of a list of FIPS approved algorithms. So looks like so far we are on the right track. Comments !!