nShield 4000 [1], nShield 2000 [2], nShield 2000 for netHSM [3], nShield 800 [4], nShield 500 [5], nShield 500 for netHSM [6] and nShield Plus [7]

Certificate details

Certificate ID #669
Status historical
Historical reason RNG SP800-131A Revision 1 Transition
Validation dates 11.05.2006 , 14.06.2006 , 20.12.2006 , 24.06.2008
Standard FIPS 140-2
Security level 3
Type Hardware
Embodiment Multi-Chip Embedded
Caveat When operated in FIPS mode and initialized to Overall Level 3 per Security Policy
Exceptions
  • Physical Security: Level 3 +EFP/EFT
Description The nCipher modules: nCipher 4000 PCI, nShield 800 PCI, and nShield Plus PCI family of secure e-commerce HSM's are multi-tasking hardware modules that is optimized for performing modular arithmetic on very large integers. The nCipher modules are FIPS 140-2 level 3 embedded devices. The units are identical in operation and only vary in the processing speed.
Version (Hardware) nC4033P-4K0 [1], nC4033P-2K0 [2], nC4033P-2K0N [3], nC4033P-800 [4], nC4133P-500 [5], nC4133P-500N [6] and nC4033P-50 [7], Build Standards L & N
Version (Firmware) 2.22.6-3, 2.22.34-3 and 2.22.43-3
Vendor nCipher Corporation Ltd. http://www.ncipher.com/cryptographic_hardware/hard
Lab DOMUS
Algorithms
References

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Security policy

Extracted keywords

Symmetric Algorithms
AES, Twofish, Serpent, CAST, RC4, DES, Triple-DES, Blowfish, Camellia, SEED, HMAC
Asymmetric Algorithms
ECDH, ECDSA, DH, Diffie-Hellman, DSA
Hash functions
SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA-224, SHA512, MD5, RIPEMD, RIPEMD160
Schemes
MAC, Key Exchange
Protocols
SSL, TLS
Randomness
RNG
Block cipher modes
ECB, CBC

Trusted Execution Environments
Secure Execution
Vendor
Broadcom

Security level
level 3, Level 3, Level 2, level 2

Title nShield Security Policy
Author nCipher
Creation date D:20080619203753Z00'00'
Modification date D:20080619203756Z00'00'
Pages 55
Creator FrameMaker 7.0
Producer Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5 (Windows)

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