Cisco Systems NSS Module

Certificate details

Certificate ID #3554
Status historical
Historical reason SP 800-56Arev3 transition
Validation dates 23.10.2019 , 08.11.2019 , 15.03.2021
Standard FIPS 140-2
Security level 1
Type Software
Embodiment Multi-Chip Stand Alone
Caveat The module generates keys whose strengths are modified by available entropy. When Operated in FIPS mode
Exceptions
  • Physical Security: N/A
  • Mitigation of Other Attacks: N/A
Description Cisco Systems NSS Module is a software library supporting FIPS 140-2 approved cryptographic algorithms.
Tested configurations
  • CentOS Linux 7.4 running on Cisco UCS M4 with Intel Xeon E5-2600
  • CentOS Linux 7.4 running on Cisco UCS M5 with Intel Xeon Bronze
Vendor Cisco Systems, Inc. http://www.cisco.com
Lab Acumen Security
Algorithms
References

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Extracted keywords

Symmetric Algorithms
AES, RC2, RC4, RC5, DES, Triple-DES, TDEA, Camellia, SEED, HMAC, HMAC-SHA-224, HMAC-SHA-256, HMAC-SHA-384, HMAC-SHA-512
Asymmetric Algorithms
ECDSA, Diffie-Hellman, DSA
Hash functions
SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, MD5
Schemes
Key Agreement, PAKE
Randomness
DRBG
Libraries
NSS
Elliptic Curves
P-256, P-384, P-521
Block cipher modes
ECB, CBC, CTR, GCM

Vendor
Cisco Systems, Cisco Systems, Inc, Cisco

Security level
Level 1

Cross-references

Incoming
  • 3535 - historical - Cisco Systems Kernel Crypto API Cryptographic Module
  • 3534 - historical - Cisco Systems Libreswan Cryptographic Module
Author Greg
Creation date D:20200916110637-04'00'
Modification date D:20200916110637-04'00'
Pages 24
Creator Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365
Producer Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365

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Raw data

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