Allegro Cryptographic Engine

Certificate details

Certificate ID #5246
Status active
Validation dates 22.04.2026
Sunset date 16-01-2030
Standard FIPS 140-3
Security level 1
Type Software
Embodiment MultiChipStand
Caveat No assurance of the minimum strength of generated SSPs (e.g., keys). No assurance of minimum security of SSPs (e.g., keys, bit strings) that are externally loaded, or of SSPs established with externally loaded SSPs
Exceptions
  • Physical security: N/A
  • Non-invasive security: N/A
  • Mitigation of other attacks: N/A
Description Allegro's suite of Embedded Device Security tool kits makes embedding standards-based security protocols into resource sensitive embedded systems and consumer electronics fast, easy and reliable. The Allegro Cryptographic Engine (ACE) is a cryptographic library module specifically engineered for embedded devices. The module provides embedded systems developers with an easily understood software interface to enable bulk encryption and decryption, message digests, digital signature creation and validation and key generation and exchange. For full details see www.allegrosoft.com/ace.
Vendor Allegro Software Development Corporation http://www.allegrosoft.com
Lab Acumen Security
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Extracted keywords

Symmetric Algorithms
AES-, AES-128, AES-192, AES-256, AES, CAST, HMAC, CMAC
Asymmetric Algorithms
ECDH, ECDSA, DH
Hash functions
SHA-1, SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512, SHA-3, MD5, PBKDF, PBKDF2
Schemes
MAC, Key Agreement
Protocols
SSH, SSHv2, TLS v1.2, TLS v1.3, TLS 1.2, TLS, TLS 1.3
Randomness
DRBG, RBG
Elliptic Curves
P-224, P-256, P-384, P-521, P-192
Block cipher modes
ECB, CBC, CTR, OFB, GCM, CCM, XTS
TLS cipher suites
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA384, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384

Trusted Execution Environments
PSP, SSC

Security level
Level 1

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