Suite B Cryptographic Module

Certificate details

Certificate ID #2212
Status historical
Historical reason Moved to historical list due to sunsetting
Validation dates 23.07.2014
Standard FIPS 140-2
Security level 1
Type Software
Embodiment Multi-Chip Stand Alone
Caveat When operated in FIPS mode with module Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Kernel Mode Cryptographic Primitives Library (cng.sys) validated to FIPS 140-2 under Cert. #1335 operating in FIPS mode or BlackBerry Cryptographic Kernel validated to FIPS 140-2 under Cert. #1669 operating in FIPS mode
Exceptions
  • Physical Security: N/A
  • Mitigation of Other Attacks: N/A
Description KEYW, in coordination with the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), has developed a Suite B-compliant, standards based, AES/GCM-256 layer of encrypted communications between a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) and a BlackBerry Mobile Set (MS) with Elliptic Curve (EC) key exchange used to negotiate symmetric keys.
Tested configurations
  • Intel Xeon E5530 w/Microsoft Windows Server 2008
  • Qualcomm Snapdragon S2 MSM8655 w/BlackBerry OS Version 7.0.0 (single-user mode)
Vendor United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) http://www.socom.mil
Lab COACT INC CAFE LAB
Algorithms
References

This certificate's webpage directly references 2 certificates, transitively this expands into 4 certificates.
Certificate
Webpage

Security policy

Extracted keywords

Symmetric Algorithms
AES, AES-128, AES-192, AES-256, HMAC
Asymmetric Algorithms
ECDH, ECDSA, ECC, Diffie-Hellman
Hash functions
SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512
Schemes
Key Exchange, Key Agreement
Protocols
SSL, TLS
Randomness
RBG
Libraries
OpenSSL
Elliptic Curves
P-224, P-192, P-256, P-384, P-521
Block cipher modes
GCM, XTS

Vendor
Microsoft

Security level
Level 1, Level 3
Vulnerabilities
CVE-2014-0160

Cross-references

Outgoing
  • 998 - historical - NSA E7500
  • 1335 - historical - Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Kernel Mode Cryptographic Primitives Library (cng.sys)
  • 132 - historical - Secure Metering Device / Series II (SMD-II)
  • 133 - historical - N18D Postage Meter
  • 1669 - historical - BlackBerry Cryptographic Kernel
Title Suite B Cryptographic Module
Subject FIPS 140-2 Security Policy
Author Cyber Security Division
Creation date D:20140723101743-04'00'
Modification date D:20140723101758-04'00'
Pages 25
Creator Acrobat PDFMaker 11 for Word
Producer Adobe PDF Library 11.0

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Cross-references

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