nShield F2 4000, nShield F2 2000, nShield F2 500

Certificate details

Certificate ID #977
Status historical
Historical reason RNG SP800-131A Revision 1 Transition
Validation dates 31.07.2008
Standard FIPS 140-2
Security level 2
Type Hardware
Embodiment Multi-Chip Embedded
Caveat When operated in FIPS mode
Exceptions
  • Roles, Services, and Authentication: Level 3
  • Physical Security: Level 3
  • Cryptographic Key Management: Level 3
  • Design Assurance: Level 3
Description The nShield modules: nShield F2 4000, nShield F2 2000, and nShield F2 500 family of secure e-commerce HSM's are multi-tasking hardware modules that is optimized for performing modular arithmetic on very large integers. The nShield modules are FIPS 140-2 level 2 embedded devices. The units are identical in operation and only vary in the processing speed.
Version (Hardware) nC3023P-4K0, nC3023P-2K0, and nC3123P-500, Build Standard N
Version (Firmware) 2.33.60-2
Vendor nCipher Corporation Ltd. http://www.ncipher.com
Lab DOMUS
Algorithms
References

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Certificate
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Security policy

Extracted keywords

Symmetric Algorithms
AES, CAST, RC4, DES, Triple-DES, Camellia, SEED, HMAC, CMAC
Asymmetric Algorithms
ECDH, ECDSA, DH, Diffie-Hellman, DSA
Hash functions
SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA-224, SHA512, MD5, RIPEMD, RIPEMD160
Schemes
MAC, Key Exchange
Protocols
SSL, TLS
Randomness
RNG
Block cipher modes
ECB, CBC, GCM

Vendor
Broadcom

Security level
Level 2, level 2, level 3, Level 3

Title nShield Security Policy
Author nCipher
Creation date D:20080603210518Z
Modification date D:20080604140236-04'00'
Pages 47
Creator FrameMaker 7.0
Producer Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5 (Windows)

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