nShield F3 4000, nShield F3 2000, nShield F3 2000 for netHSM, nShield F3 500 and nShield F3 500 for netHSM

Certificate details

Certificate ID #968
Status historical
Historical reason RNG SP800-131A Revision 1 Transition
Validation dates 24.06.2008
Standard FIPS 140-2
Security level 2
Type Hardware
Embodiment Multi-Chip Embedded
Caveat When operated in FIPS mode
Exceptions
  • Roles, Services, and Authentication: Level 3
  • Physical Security: Level 3 +EFP/EFT
  • Cryptographic Key Management: Level 3
  • EMI/EMC: Level 3
  • Design Assurance: Level 3
Description The nShield modules: nCipher 4000, nShield 2000, nShield 2000 for netHSM, nShield 500 and nShield 500 for netHSM family of secure e-commerce HSM's are multi-tasking hardware modules that is optimized for performing modular arithmetic on very large integers. The nShield modules are FIPS 140-2 level 2 embedded devices. The units are identical in operation and only vary in the processing speed.
Version (Hardware) nC4033P-4K0, nC4033P-2K0, nC4033P-2K0N, nC4133P-500 and nC4133P-500N, Build Standard N
Version (Firmware) 2.33.60-2
Vendor nCipher Corporation Ltd.
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Security policy

Extracted keywords

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

Trusted Execution Environments
Secure Execution
Vendor
Broadcom

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

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  • 1137 - historical - ProtectServer Gold (PSG)
Title nShield Security Policy
Author nCipher
Creation date D:20080603210731Z
Modification date D:20080603170819-04'00'
Pages 52
Creator FrameMaker 7.0
Producer Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5 (Windows)

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