Abstract: A system and method of the present invention creates a security application for a programmable cryptography module, which includes a security policy software module and mirror security policy data structures. A processor determines a security policy for an implementation specific application as a set of rules governing cryptographic security policy functions of the security policy software module. The processor is operative for generating a binary security policy file representative of the security policy and comparing the binary security policy file with the mirror security policy data structures to determine a violation of the security policy or a successful comparison.

Abstract: A system and method for relieving frost-heaving stresses in a pipeline for ransporting a product at a temperature less than 32.degree. F. where said pipeline passes through frost-susceptible ground in a trench beneath the ground surface. Bedding supports the pipeline in the trench with its top substantially below the surface of the ground. A pair of relatively thin, elongated soil separators are installed in the trench, one along each side of the pipeline in parallel relation to the longitudinal axis of the pipeline. Each separator has a transverse width extending vertically upward substantially beyond the top of the pipeline and into backfill soil above the pipeline. Padding supports a lower edge of the shear separators adjacent to the pipeline and the separators each have an upper edge located substantially beyond this padding and beyond the top of the pipeline.