Network Security Services (NSS) Cryptographic Module

Certificate details

Certificate ID #814
Status historical
Historical reason RNG SP800-131A Revision 1 Transition
Validation dates 27.08.2007
Standard FIPS 140-2
Security level 2
Type Software
Embodiment Multi-Chip Stand Alone
Caveat When operated in FIPS mode
Description Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of open source C libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled applications. NSS implements major crypto algorithms and Internet security standards, and supports smartcards and hardware crypto devices. NSS is available free of charge under the Mozilla Public License, the GNU General Public License, and the GNU Lesser General Public License. For more information, see http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
Tested configurations
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 4 Update 1 AS on IBM xSeries 336 with Intel Xeon CPU
  • Trusted Solaris 8 4/01 on Sun Blade 2500 Workstation with UltraSPARC IIIi CPU
Vendor Red Hat®, Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/f
Lab Aspect
Algorithms
References

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Certificate
Webpage

Security policy

Extracted keywords

Symmetric Algorithms
AES, RC2, RC4, DES, Triple-DES, HMAC
Asymmetric Algorithms
ECDSA, ECC, Diffie-Hellman, DSA
Hash functions
SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, MD5, PBKDF1
Schemes
MAC
Protocols
TLS
Randomness
RNG
Libraries
NSS
Elliptic Curves
P-256, P-384, P-521, Curve P-256, K-283, secp160k1, secp160r1, secp160r2, secp192k1, secp224k1, secp256k1, sect163r1, sect193r1, sect193r2, sect239k1, secp112r1, secp112r2, secp128r1, secp128r2, sect113r1, sect113r2, sect131r1, sect131r2, prime192v2, prime192v3, prime239v1, prime239v2, prime239v3, c2pnb163v1, c2pnb163v2, c2pnb163v3, c2tnb191v1, c2tnb191v2, c2tnb191v3, c2tnb239v1, c2tnb239v2, c2tnb239v3, c2pnb176w1, c2pnb208w1, c2pnb272w1, c2pnb304w1, c2pnb368w1
Block cipher modes
ECB, CBC

Vendor
Microsoft

Security level
Level 1, Level 2, level 1, level 2
Side-channel analysis
Timing attacks, Timing attack, timing attacks, Timing Attacks

Title Security Policy - MozillaWiki
Keywords Security Policy
Creation date D:20070719122604-07'00'
Modification date D:20070827151621-04'00'
Pages 31
Creator Writer
Producer StarOffice 7

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