nShield Solo XC F3 [1] and nShield Solo XC F3 for nShield Connect XC [2]

Certificate details

Certificate ID #3035
Status historical
Historical reason 186-2 transition
Validation dates 03.10.2017 , 07.11.2017 , 18.07.2018 , 03.06.2019
Standard FIPS 140-2
Security level 2
Type Hardware
Embodiment Multi-Chip Embedded
Caveat When operated in FIPS mode and initialized to Overall Level 2 per Security Policy. The module generates cryptographic keys whose strengths are modified by available entropy
Exceptions
  • Roles, Services, and Authentication: Level 3
  • Physical Security: Level 3
  • EMI/EMC: Level 3
  • Design Assurance: Level 3
  • Mitigation of Other Attacks: N/A
Description The nShield XC F3 PCIe card, sold as nShield XC F3 PCIe server-embedded hardware security modules (HSMs) and also used in the nShield Connect XC network appliance HSMs, are multi-tasking HSMs optimized for symmetric and asymmetric operations on protected keys. The nShield modules are FIPS 140-2 Level 2 embedded devices for applications including but not limited to PKI, SSL/TLS, Secure Manufacturing, Data Protection, Key Management and Provisioning.
Version (Hardware) NC4035E-000 [1] and NC4335N-000 [2], Build Standard A
Version (Firmware) 3.3.21, 3.4.1, and 3.4.2
Vendor nCipher Security Limited http://www.thalesesecurity.com
Lab DXC Technology
Algorithms
References

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Security policy

Extracted keywords

Symmetric Algorithms
AES, AES-256, AES-128, AES-192, CAST, RC4, DES, Triple-DES, TDES, Camellia, HMAC, CMAC
Asymmetric Algorithms
ECDH, ECDSA, DH, Diffie-Hellman, DSA
Hash functions
SHA-1, SHA1, SHA-256, SHA256, SHA-512, SHA-224, SHA-384, SHA512, SHA2, MD5, RIPEMD, RIPEMD160, PBKDF
Schemes
MAC, KA, Key Agreement, Key agreement
Randomness
DRBG
Elliptic Curves
P-224, P-256, P-384, P-521, P-192, K-233, K-409, B-233, B-409, B-163
Block cipher modes
ECB, CBC, CTR, GCM

Trusted Execution Environments
Secure Execution

Security level
level 2, level 3
Side-channel analysis
Side channel

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Cross-references

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