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cVu 16100 Network Packet Broker

Certificate #4382

Webpage information

Status	active
Validation dates	28.11.2022
Sunset date	21-09-2026
Standard	FIPS 140-2
Security level	2
Type	Hardware
Embodiment	Multi-Chip Stand Alone
Caveat	None
Exceptions	Roles, Services, and Authentication: Level 3 Mitigation of Other Attacks: N/A
Description	The cPacket cVu product family is the industry's leading network packet broker (NPB) with millisecond accuracy at 100G wire speed. The cVu 16100+ integrates real-time performance monitoring with network packet brokering to enable organizations to cost effectively and quickly find network infrastructure issues and reliably feed security and other network tools without dropping packets.
Version (Hardware)	cVu 16100 NG TAA
Version (Firmware)	21.3.0
Vendor	cPacket Networks, Inc.
References	This certificate's webpage directly references 0 certificates, transitively this expands into 0 certificates.

Certificate

Webpage

Security policy

Security target PDF TXT

Symmetric Algorithms

AES, DES, HMAC, CMAC

Asymmetric Algorithms

ECDH, ECDSA, ECC, Diffie-Hellman, DH, DSA

Hash functions

SHA-1, SHA2, SHA-3, SHA3-256, MD5

Schemes

MAC, Key agreement, Key Agreement

Protocols

SSH, SSHv2, SSL, TLS, TLS v1.2, TLS 1.2

Randomness

DRBG

Libraries

OpenSSL

Elliptic Curves

P-224, P-256, P-384, P-521, B-233, B-283, B-409, B-571, K-233, K-283, K-409, K-571

Block cipher modes

ECB, CBC, CTR, CFB, GCM

Security level

Level 2, Level 1

Standards

FIPS 140-2, FIPS PUB 186-4, FIPS PUB 198-1, FIPS PUB 202, FIPS PUB 180-4, NIST SP 800-38B, NIST SP 800-38D, NIST SP 800-90B, NIST SP 800-38F, NIST SP 800-133, SP 800-90A, PKCS#144, PKCS#1, RFC31, RFC 7627, RFC 5288, RFC 5116, RFC 5246, RFC 5289, RFC 5647, RFC 4252, RFC 4253

File metadata

Title	Microsoft Word - 1B - cPacket cVu FIPS 140-2 Security Policy.docx
Author	huntzh
Creation date	D:20221013133610-04'00'
Modification date	D:20221013133610-04'00'
Pages	36
Producer	Microsoft: Print To PDF

Heuristics

No heuristics are available for this certificate.

References

No references are available for this certificate.

Updates Feed

15.12.2025

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The state was updated.

The following values were inserted: {'policy_json_hash': None}.

The following properties were deleted: ['policy_convert_garbage'].
08.09.2025

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The web extraction data was updated.

The validation_history property was updated.
04.04.2025

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The PDF extraction data was updated.

The keywords property was updated, with the {'crypto_protocol': {'__update__': {'SSH': {'__insert__': {'SSHv2': 3}}}}} data.
09.02.2023

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The cert_id was updated.

The new value is 4382.

The web extraction data was updated.

The following values were inserted: {'validation_history': [{'_type': 'sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.ValidationHistoryEntry', 'date': '2022-11-28', 'validation_type': 'Initial', 'lab': 'LEIDOS CSTL'}], 'vendor_url': 'http://www.cpacket.com', 'certificate_pdf_url': 'https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/documents/certificates/November 2022_051222_0640_signed.pdf', 'hw_versions': 'cVu 16100 NG TAA', 'fw_versions': '21.3.0'}.

The standard property was set to FIPS 140-2.

The status property was set to active.

The level property was set to 2.

The embodiment property was set to Multi-Chip Stand Alone.

The tested_conf property was set to None.

The following properties were deleted: ['date_validation', 'algorithms', 'vendor_www', 'lab', 'lab_nvlap', 'security_policy_www', 'certificate_www', 'hw_version', 'fw_version', 'product_url'].

The PDF extraction data was updated.

The following values were inserted: {'policy_metadata': {'pdf_file_size_bytes': 1979488, 'pdf_is_encrypted': False, 'pdf_number_of_pages': 36, '/Author': 'huntzh', '/CreationDate': "D:20221013133610-04'00'", '/ModDate': "D:20221013133610-04'00'", '/Producer': 'Microsoft: Print To PDF', '/Title': 'Microsoft Word - 1B - cPacket cVu FIPS 140-2 Security Policy.docx', 'pdf_hyperlinks': {'_type': 'Set', 'elements': []}}}.

The following properties were deleted: ['cert_id', 'algorithms', 'clean_cert_ids', 'st_metadata'].

The computed heuristics were updated.

The following values were inserted: {'policy_prunned_references': {'_type': 'Set', 'elements': []}, 'module_prunned_references': {'_type': 'Set', 'elements': []}, 'policy_processed_references': {'_type': 'sec_certs.sample.certificate.References', 'directly_referenced_by': None, 'indirectly_referenced_by': None, 'directly_referencing': None, 'indirectly_referencing': None}, 'module_processed_references': {'_type': 'sec_certs.sample.certificate.References', 'directly_referenced_by': None, 'indirectly_referenced_by': None, 'directly_referencing': None, 'indirectly_referencing': None}, 'direct_transitive_cves': None, 'indirect_transitive_cves': None}.

The algorithms property was set to {'_type': 'Set', 'elements': ['KAS-SSC#A2251', 'DSA#A2251', 'CVL#A2252', 'AES#A2251', 'RSA#A2251', 'HMAC#A2251', 'SHS#A2251', 'KAS#A2254', 'KAS#A2253', 'ECDSA#A2251', 'KAS#A2251', 'DRBG#A2251', 'KTS#A2251', 'CVL#A2254', 'SHA-3#A2250', 'CVL#A2253']}.

The following properties were deleted: ['keywords', 'unmatched_algs', 'clean_cert_ids', 'st_references', 'web_references'].

The state was updated.

The following values were inserted: {'module_download_ok': True, 'policy_download_ok': True, 'policy_convert_garbage': False, 'policy_convert_ok': True, 'module_extract_ok': True, 'policy_extract_ok': True, 'policy_pdf_hash': '1a89a6ec7103d0ee372d08215c3fc6e612822bdc742cde8266018bba39108007', 'policy_txt_hash': 'b6acab23f541687a40ebb6d4bd30a0f48004ae8ccd2e9f2b857776c827a6467c'}.

The following properties were deleted: ['sp_path', 'html_path', 'tables_done', 'file_status', 'txt_state'].
07.12.2022

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The web extraction data was updated.

The certificate_www property was set to https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/documents/certificates/November 2022_051222_0640_signed.pdf.
29.11.2022

The certificate was first processed.

Raw data

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