BlackBerry® Cryptographic Kernel

Certificate details

Certificate ID #500
Status historical
Historical reason RNG SP800-131A Revision 1 Transition
Validation dates 18.01.2005 , 31.01.2005 , 11.03.2005 , 30.06.2005 , 24.08.2005 , 09.09.2005 , 07.10.2005
Standard FIPS 140-2
Security level 1
Type Firmware
Embodiment Multi-Chip Stand Alone
Caveat None
Exceptions
  • Design Assurance: Level 3
  • Tested: BlackBerry® 7230 with BlackBerry OS® Versions 3.8[1], 4.0[1] and 4.1[2]
Description BlackBerry® is the leading wireless enterprise solution that allows users to stay connected with secure, wireless access to email, corporate data, phone, web and organizer features. BlackBerry® is a totally integrated package that includes hardware, software and service, providing a complete end-toend solution. The BlackBerry® Cryptographic Kernel is the software module that provides the basic cryptographic functionality for the BlackBerry®.
Version (Firmware) 3.8.0.18[1], 3.8.0.20[1], 3.8.0.23[1], 3.8.0.23b [1,2], 3.8.0.24[1], 3.8.0.24b[1,2], 3.8.0.26[1], 3.8.0.26b[1,2], 3.8.0.27[1] and 3.8.0.27b[1,2]
Vendor Research In Motion Ltd. http://www.blackberry.com
Lab DOMUS
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Security policy

Extracted keywords

Symmetric Algorithms
AES-256, AES, DES, HMAC
Asymmetric Algorithms
ECC, Diffie-Hellman, DH
Hash functions
SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512
Schemes
Key Agreement
Randomness
RNG
Block cipher modes
CBC

Security level
Level 1

Cross-references

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  • 4578 - historical - SUSE Rancher Kubernetes Cryptographic Library
Title FIPS 140-2 Security Policy
Subject BlackBerry Cryptographic Kernel
Keywords FIPS, 140-2, Security Policy, Cryptographic Kernel, validation, certification
Author David MacFarlane
Creation date D:20050921112541-04'00'
Modification date D:20051007112118-04'00'
Pages 17
Creator Acrobat PDFMaker 6.0 for Word
Producer Acrobat Distiller 6.0.1 (Windows)

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Raw data

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