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nShield 300, nShield 150and nShield 75Cryptographic Accelerators

Certificate #128

Webpage information

Status	historical
Historical reason	Validation Sunsetting Policy - FIPS 140-1 Certificate
Validation dates	20.12.2000 , 14.09.2001 , 09.03.2006 , 15.03.2006
Standard	FIPS 140-1
Security level	3
Type	Hardware
Embodiment	Multi-Chip Stand Alone
Caveat	When operated in FIPS mode
Exceptions	Roles and Services: Level 3* Self Tests: Level 3* Key Management: Level 3* *(Level 3 is met in these areas when the "FIPS_level3" flag is set during initialization.)
Description	The nCipher nShield range of tamper resistent Hardware Security Modules improves the security of cryptographic keys and increases server throughput for digital signature and encryption applications. Supporting many commercial public key infrastructure (PKI) products such as certificate authorities and on-line validation servers, the nShield family of HSMs is also used for building custom security applications requiring secure and flexible key management.
Version (Hardware)	nC3031S-300, 150, 75, Build Standard E
Version (Firmware)	v1.77.100
Vendor	nCipher Corporation Ltd.
References	This certificate's webpage directly references 0 certificates, transitively this expands into 0 certificates.

Certificate

Webpage

Security policy

Security target PDF TXT

Symmetric Algorithms

AES, Rijndael, Twofish, Serpent, CAST, RC4, DES, Blowfish, HMAC

Asymmetric Algorithms

DSA

Hash functions

SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, MD5, RIPEMD, RIPEMD160

Schemes

MAC

Block cipher modes

ECB, CBC

Security level

level 3, level 2

Standards

FIPS 140-1, FIPS 113, PKCS #1, RFC2144, RFC2612

File metadata

Title	Untitled Document
Creation date	D:20060314161315
Modification date	D:20060314161536Z
Pages	23
Creator	FrameMaker 6.0
Producer	Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Windows

References

Incoming

4841 - active - PAN-OS 10.1 Next-Generation Hardware Firewalls

Heuristics

No heuristics are available for this certificate.

References

Updates Feed

15.12.2025

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The state was updated.

The following values were inserted: {'policy_json_hash': None}.

The following properties were deleted: ['policy_convert_garbage'].
21.10.2024

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The computed heuristics were updated.

The policy_processed_references property was updated, with the {'directly_referenced_by': {'_type': 'Set', 'elements': ['4841']}, 'indirectly_referenced_by': {'_type': 'Set', 'elements': ['4841']}} data.
09.02.2023

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The cert_id was updated.

The new value is 128.

The web extraction data was updated.

The following values were inserted: {'validation_history': [{'_type': 'sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.ValidationHistoryEntry', 'date': '2000-12-20', 'validation_type': 'Initial', 'lab': 'DOMUS'}, {'_type': 'sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.ValidationHistoryEntry', 'date': '2001-09-14', 'validation_type': 'Update', 'lab': ''}, {'_type': 'sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.ValidationHistoryEntry', 'date': '2006-03-09', 'validation_type': 'Update', 'lab': ''}, {'_type': 'sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.ValidationHistoryEntry', 'date': '2006-03-15', 'validation_type': 'Update', 'lab': ''}], 'vendor_url': 'http://www.ncipher.com', 'certificate_pdf_url': 'https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/documents/certificates/140crt128.pdf', 'hw_versions': 'nC3031S-300, 150, 75, Build Standard E', 'fw_versions': 'v1.77.100'}.

The standard property was set to FIPS 140-1.

The status property was set to historical.

The level property was set to 3.

The embodiment property was set to Multi-Chip Stand Alone.

The description property was set to The nCipher nShield range of tamper resistent Hardware Security Modules improves the security of cryptographic keys and increases server throughput for digital signature and encryption applications. Supporting many commercial public key infrastructure (PKI) products such as certificate authorities and on-line validation servers, the nShield family of HSMs is also used for building custom security applications requiring secure and flexible key management..

The following properties were deleted: ['date_validation', 'algorithms', 'vendor_www', 'lab', 'lab_nvlap', 'security_policy_www', 'certificate_www', 'hw_version', 'fw_version', 'product_url'].

The PDF extraction data was updated.

The following values were inserted: {'policy_metadata': {'pdf_file_size_bytes': 373969, 'pdf_is_encrypted': False, 'pdf_number_of_pages': 23, '/Producer': 'Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Windows', '/Title': 'Untitled Document', '/ModDate': 'D:20060314161536Z', '/CreationDate': 'D:20060314161315', '/Creator': 'FrameMaker 6.0', 'pdf_hyperlinks': {'_type': 'Set', 'elements': ['http://www.ncipher.com']}}}.

The following properties were deleted: ['cert_id', 'algorithms', 'clean_cert_ids', 'st_metadata'].

The computed heuristics were updated.

The following values were inserted: {'policy_prunned_references': {'_type': 'Set', 'elements': []}, 'module_prunned_references': {'_type': 'Set', 'elements': []}, 'policy_processed_references': {'_type': 'sec_certs.sample.certificate.References', 'directly_referenced_by': None, 'indirectly_referenced_by': None, 'directly_referencing': None, 'indirectly_referencing': None}, 'module_processed_references': {'_type': 'sec_certs.sample.certificate.References', 'directly_referenced_by': None, 'indirectly_referenced_by': None, 'directly_referencing': None, 'indirectly_referencing': None}, 'direct_transitive_cves': None, 'indirect_transitive_cves': None}.

The algorithms property was set to {'_type': 'Set', 'elements': ['DSA/SHA-1#11', 'Triple-DES#34']}.

The following properties were deleted: ['keywords', 'unmatched_algs', 'clean_cert_ids', 'st_references', 'web_references'].

The state was updated.

The following values were inserted: {'module_download_ok': True, 'policy_download_ok': True, 'policy_convert_garbage': False, 'policy_convert_ok': True, 'module_extract_ok': True, 'policy_extract_ok': True, 'policy_pdf_hash': '7e41eadfad2b84ad4cff44327d3ae49f9ef9bba5d6c1013ef2333c2728ec6ed9', 'policy_txt_hash': '6e5a52e9e98cbe60acebb72defd0fdfad4c0731c3034922bc811517b0d4dcde6'}.

The following properties were deleted: ['sp_path', 'html_path', 'tables_done', 'file_status', 'txt_state'].
07.12.2022

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The computed heuristics were updated.

The st_references property was updated, with the {'directly_referenced_by': {'_type': 'Set', 'elements': ['578']}, 'indirectly_referenced_by': {'_type': 'Set', 'elements': ['1146', '1375', '578', '1739', '1744', '921']}} data.
05.11.2022

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The web extraction data was updated.

The algorithms property was set to {'_type': 'Set', 'elements': []}.

The computed heuristics were updated.

The algorithms property was set to {'_type': 'Set', 'elements': []}.
25.10.2022

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The PDF extraction data was updated.

The keywords property was updated, with the {'fips_certlike': {'__update__': {'Certlike': {'__delete__': ['SHA-1 Certificate #11']}}}, 'asymmetric_crypto': {'__update__': {'FF': {'__update__': {'DSA': {'__update__': {'DSA': 2}}}}}}, 'hash_function': {'__update__': {'SHA': {'__update__': {'SHA1': {'__update__': {'SHA-1': 5}}, 'SHA2': {'__delete__': ['SHA-2']}}, '__delete__': ['SHA3']}}}, 'crypto_scheme': {'__update__': {'MAC': {'__update__': {'MAC': 4}}}}, 'tee_name': {}, 'standard_id': {'__update__': {'FIPS': {'__update__': {'FIPS 140-1': 14}, '__delete__': ['FIPS140']}, 'RFC': {'RFC2144': 1, 'RFC2612': 1}}}} data.

The state was updated.

The tables_done property was set to True.
17.07.2022

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The _type was updated.

The new value is sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.

The computed heuristics were updated.

The following values were inserted: {'clean_cert_ids': {}}.

The _type property was set to sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.Heuristics.

The keywords property was set to {}.

The algorithms property was set to {'_type': 'Set', 'elements': [{'_type': 'sec_certs.sample.fips_algorithm.FIPSAlgorithm', 'cert_id': '#34', 'algorithm_type': 'Triple-DES', 'vendor': None, 'implementation': None, 'date': None}, {'_type': 'sec_certs.sample.fips_algorithm.FIPSAlgorithm', 'cert_id': '#11', 'algorithm_type': 'DSA/SHA-1', 'vendor': None, 'implementation': None, 'date': None}]}.

The st_references property was updated, with the {'_type': 'sec_certs.sample.certificate.References'} data.

The web_references property was updated, with the {'_type': 'sec_certs.sample.certificate.References'} data.

The state was updated.

The _type property was set to sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.InternalState.

The following properties were deleted: ['fragment_path'].
14.06.2022

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The pdf_scan was updated.

The keywords property was updated, with the {'rules_standard_id': {'__update__': {'FIPS ?(?:PUB )?[0-9]+-[0-9]+?': {'__update__': {'FIPS 140-1': {'__update__': {'count': 1}}}}, 'RFC[ ]*[0-9]+?': {'__delete__': ['RFC2144']}}}} data.

The computed heuristics were updated.

The keywords property was updated, with the {'rules_standard_id': {'__update__': {'FIPS ?(?:PUB )?[0-9]+-[0-9]+?': {'__update__': {'FIPS 140-1': {'__update__': {'count': 1}}}}, 'RFC[ ]*[0-9]+?': {'__delete__': ['RFC2144']}}}} data.
08.03.2022

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The web_scan was updated.

The following properties were deleted: ['connections'].

The pdf_scan was updated.

The following properties were deleted: ['connections'].

The computed heuristics were updated.

The following values were inserted: {'st_references': {'_type': 'References', 'directly_referenced_by': None, 'indirectly_referenced_by': None, 'directly_referencing': None, 'indirectly_referencing': None}, 'web_references': {'_type': 'References', 'directly_referenced_by': None, 'indirectly_referenced_by': None, 'directly_referencing': None, 'indirectly_referencing': None}}.

The following properties were deleted: ['connections', 'directly_affected_by', 'indirectly_affected_by', 'directly_affecting', 'indirectly_affecting'].
18.02.2022

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The computed heuristics were updated.

The extracted_versions property was set to {'_type': 'Set', 'elements': ['1.77.100']}.
02.02.2022

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The web_scan was updated.

The module_type property was set to Hardware.
30.01.2022

The certificate was first processed.

Raw data

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  "_type": "sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate",
  "cert_id": 128,
  "dgst": "2747b7c718564ba5",
  "heuristics": {
    "_type": "sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.Heuristics",
    "algorithms": {
      "_type": "Set",
      "elements": [
        "Triple-DES#34",
        "DSA/SHA-1#11"
      ]
    },
    "cpe_matches": null,
    "direct_transitive_cves": null,
    "extracted_versions": {
      "_type": "Set",
      "elements": [
        "1.77.100"
      ]
    },
    "indirect_transitive_cves": null,
    "module_processed_references": {
      "_type": "sec_certs.sample.certificate.References",
      "directly_referenced_by": null,
      "directly_referencing": null,
      "indirectly_referenced_by": null,
      "indirectly_referencing": null
    },
    "module_prunned_references": {
      "_type": "Set",
      "elements": []
    },
    "policy_processed_references": {
      "_type": "sec_certs.sample.certificate.References",
      "directly_referenced_by": {
        "_type": "Set",
        "elements": [
          "4841"
        ]
      },
      "directly_referencing": null,
      "indirectly_referenced_by": {
        "_type": "Set",
        "elements": [
          "4841"
        ]
      },
      "indirectly_referencing": null
    },
    "policy_prunned_references": {
      "_type": "Set",
      "elements": []
    },
    "related_cves": null,
    "verified_cpe_matches": null
  },
  "pdf_data": {
    "_type": "sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.PdfData",
    "keywords": {
      "asymmetric_crypto": {
        "FF": {
          "DSA": {
            "DSA": 2
          }
        }
      },
      "certification_process": {},
      "cipher_mode": {
        "CBC": {
          "CBC": 1
        },
        "ECB": {
          "ECB": 1
        }
      },
      "cplc_data": {},
      "crypto_engine": {},
      "crypto_library": {},
      "crypto_protocol": {},
      "crypto_scheme": {
        "MAC": {
          "MAC": 4
        }
      },
      "device_model": {},
      "ecc_curve": {},
      "eval_facility": {},
      "fips_cert_id": {
        "Cert": {
          "#1": 1,
          "#11": 1,
          "#24": 1,
          "#34": 1
        }
      },
      "fips_certlike": {
        "Certlike": {
          "#1 HMAC": 1,
          "Certificate #11 RSA": 1,
          "Certificate #24 DES": 1,
          "DES Certificate #24": 1,
          "DES Certificate #34": 1,
          "HMAC SHA-1": 1,
          "PKCS #1": 2,
          "SHA-1": 5,
          "SHA-256": 2,
          "SHA-384": 2,
          "SHA-512": 2
        }
      },
      "fips_security_level": {
        "Level": {
          "level 2": 9,
          "level 3": 9
        }
      },
      "hash_function": {
        "MD": {
          "MD5": {
            "MD5": 2
          }
        },
        "RIPEMD": {
          "RIPEMD": 1,
          "RIPEMD160": 1
        },
        "SHA": {
          "SHA1": {
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          },
          "SHA2": {
            "SHA-256": 2,
            "SHA-384": 2,
            "SHA-512": 2
          }
        }
      },
      "ic_data_group": {},
      "javacard_api_const": {},
      "javacard_packages": {},
      "javacard_version": {},
      "os_name": {},
      "pq_crypto": {},
      "randomness": {},
      "side_channel_analysis": {},
      "standard_id": {
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          "FIPS 140-1": 14
        },
        "PKCS": {
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        },
        "RFC": {
          "RFC2144": 1,
          "RFC2612": 1
        }
      },
      "symmetric_crypto": {
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          },
          "CAST": {
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          },
          "RC": {
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          },
          "Rijndael": {
            "Rijndael": 1
          },
          "Serpent": {
            "Serpent": 1
          },
          "Twofish": {
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          }
        },
        "DES": {
          "DES": {
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          }
        },
        "constructions": {
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          }
        },
        "miscellaneous": {
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          }
        }
      },
      "tee_name": {},
      "tls_cipher_suite": {},
      "vendor": {},
      "vulnerability": {}
    },
    "policy_metadata": {
      "/CreationDate": "D:20060314161315",
      "/Creator": "FrameMaker 6.0",
      "/ModDate": "D:20060314161536Z",
      "/Producer": "Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Windows",
      "/Title": "Untitled Document",
      "pdf_file_size_bytes": 373969,
      "pdf_hyperlinks": {
        "_type": "Set",
        "elements": [
          "http://www.ncipher.com"
        ]
      },
      "pdf_is_encrypted": false,
      "pdf_number_of_pages": 23
    }
  },
  "state": {
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    "module": {
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      "convert_ok": true,
      "download_ok": true,
      "extract_ok": true,
      "json_hash": null,
      "source_hash": null,
      "txt_hash": null
    },
    "policy": {
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      "convert_ok": true,
      "download_ok": true,
      "extract_ok": true,
      "json_hash": null,
      "source_hash": "7e41eadfad2b84ad4cff44327d3ae49f9ef9bba5d6c1013ef2333c2728ec6ed9",
      "txt_hash": "6e5a52e9e98cbe60acebb72defd0fdfad4c0731c3034922bc811517b0d4dcde6"
    }
  },
  "web_data": {
    "_type": "sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.WebData",
    "caveat": "When operated in FIPS mode",
    "certificate_pdf_url": "https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/documents/certificates/140crt128.pdf",
    "date_sunset": null,
    "description": "The nCipher nShield range of tamper resistent Hardware Security Modules improves the security of cryptographic keys and increases server throughput for digital signature and encryption applications. Supporting many commercial public key infrastructure (PKI) products such as certificate authorities and on-line validation servers, the nShield family of HSMs is also used for building custom security applications requiring secure and flexible key management.",
    "embodiment": "Multi-Chip Stand Alone",
    "exceptions": [
      "Roles and Services: Level 3*",
      "Self Tests: Level 3*",
      "Key Management: Level 3*",
      "*(Level 3 is met in these areas when the \"FIPS_level3\" flag is set during initialization.)"
    ],
    "fw_versions": "v1.77.100",
    "historical_reason": "Validation Sunsetting Policy - FIPS 140-1 Certificate",
    "hw_versions": "nC3031S-300, 150, 75, Build Standard E",
    "level": 3,
    "mentioned_certs": {},
    "module_name": "nShield 300, nShield 150and nShield 75Cryptographic Accelerators",
    "module_type": "Hardware",
    "revoked_link": null,
    "revoked_reason": null,
    "standard": "FIPS 140-1",
    "status": "historical",
    "sw_versions": null,
    "tested_conf": null,
    "validation_history": [
      {
        "_type": "sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.ValidationHistoryEntry",
        "date": "2000-12-20",
        "lab": "DOMUS",
        "validation_type": "Initial"
      },
      {
        "_type": "sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.ValidationHistoryEntry",
        "date": "2001-09-14",
        "lab": "",
        "validation_type": "Update"
      },
      {
        "_type": "sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.ValidationHistoryEntry",
        "date": "2006-03-09",
        "lab": "",
        "validation_type": "Update"
      },
      {
        "_type": "sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.ValidationHistoryEntry",
        "date": "2006-03-15",
        "lab": "",
        "validation_type": "Update"
      }
    ],
    "vendor": "nCipher Corporation Ltd.",
    "vendor_url": "http://www.ncipher.com"
  }
}

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