VMware's ESXboot Cryptographic Module

Certificate #4442

Webpage information ?

Status active
Validation dates 23.02.2023 , 04.04.2024
Sunset date 22-02-2028
Standard FIPS 140-3
Security level 1
Type Software
Embodiment Multi-Chip Stand Alone
Caveat When installed, initialized and configured as specified in Section 11 of the Security Policy
Exceptions
  • Physical security: N/A
  • Non-invasive security: N/A
  • Mitigation of other attacks: N/A
Description VMware’s ESXboot Cryptographic Module provides FIPS 140-3 Approved cryptographic services for verifying the integrity of ESXi during the boot process.
Tested configurations
  • UEFI 2.5 running on a Dell PowerEdge R740 with an Intel® Xeon® Gold 6126
  • UEFI 2.7 running on a Dell PowerEdge R740 with an Intel® Xeon® Gold 6230R
  • UEFI 2.7 running on a Lenovo ThinkSystem HR350A with an Ampere Computing eMAG
Vendor VMware, Inc.
References

This certificate's webpage directly references 0 certificates, transitively this expands into 0 certificates.

Security policy ?

Symmetric Algorithms
AES, HMAC, HMAC-SHA-224
Hash functions
SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA-224, SHA-256

Trusted Execution Environments
PSP

Security level
Level 1

Standards
FIPS 140-3, FIPS 140, FIPS 186-4, FIPS 198-1, FIPS 180-4, SP 800-140B, PKCS #1, PKCS1, ISO/IEC 24759

File metadata

Creation date D:20230214151058-05'00'
Modification date D:20230214151058-05'00'
Pages 21

Heuristics ?

No heuristics are available for this certificate.

References ?

No references are available for this certificate.

Updates ?

  • 04.07.2024 The certificate data changed.
    Certificate changed

    The web extraction data was updated.

    • The validation_history property was updated, with the [[1, {'_type': 'sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.ValidationHistoryEntry', 'date': '2024-04-04', 'validation_type': 'Update', 'lab': 'LEIDOS CSTL'}]] values inserted.
  • 12.03.2023 The certificate data changed.
    Certificate changed

    The web extraction data was updated.

    • The certificate_pdf_url property was set to https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/documents/certificates/February 2023_010323_0649.pdf.
  • 26.02.2023 The certificate was first processed.
    New certificate

    A new FIPS 140 certificate with the product name was processed.

Raw data

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        "RSA SigVer (FIPS186-4)A1357",
        "HMAC-SHA2-512A1357",
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        "SHA2-224A1357",
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    "date_sunset": "2028-02-22",
    "description": "VMware\u2019s ESXboot Cryptographic Module provides FIPS 140-3 Approved cryptographic services for verifying the integrity of ESXi during the boot process.",
    "embodiment": "Multi-Chip Stand Alone",
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      "Non-invasive security: N/A",
      "Mitigation of other attacks: N/A"
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    "standard": "FIPS 140-3",
    "status": "active",
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