nForce 300, nForce 150and nForce 75 Cryptographic Accelerators

Certificate details

Certificate ID #126
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 2
Type Hardware
Embodiment Multi-Chip Stand Alone
Caveat When operated in FIPS mode
Exceptions
  • Roles and Services: Level 3*
  • Software Security: Level 3
  • EMI/EMC: 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 nForce family of secure e-commerce accelerators improves data security and increases server transaction throughput in applications using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol such as secure web servers, or application servers that process secure transactions. nForce provides hardware key storage in addition to off-loading the SSL cryptographic processing from the host CPU.
Version (Hardware) nC3021S-300, 150, 75 Build Standard E
Version (Firmware) v1.77.100
Vendor nCipher Corporation Ltd. http://www.ncipher.com
Lab DOMUS
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Security policy

Extracted keywords

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 2, level 3

Cross-references

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  • 2159 - historical - Unified Crypto Module
  • 3011 - historical - Unified Crypto Module

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Raw data

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