AWS Nitro Card Security Engine

Certificate details

Certificate ID #3739
Status historical
Historical reason Moved to historical list due to sunsetting
Validation dates 29.10.2020
Standard FIPS 140-2
Security level 1
Type Firmware-Hybrid
Embodiment Multi-Chip Stand Alone
Caveat When operated in FIPS mode
Exceptions
  • Mitigation of Other Attacks: N/A
Description The AWS Nitro Card Security Engine is a multi-chip standalone firmware-hybrid module. The Approved cryptographic services provided by the module are: - Data encryption / decryption utilizing symmetric ciphers, i.e. AES algorithms. - Computation of hash values, i.e. SHA-256, SHA-512. - Message authentication utilizing HMAC-SHA256, HMAC-SHA512, hashing algorithms.
Version (Hardware) AL5+
Version (Firmware) HAL-rel-3.2-uemu-fips
Tested configurations
  • Carbon Linux (Linux kernel 4.9.32) running on Cortex ARMv8 with AL5+
Vendor Amazon Web Services, Inc. https://aws.amazon.com
Lab Acumen Security
Algorithms
References

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Extracted keywords

Symmetric Algorithms
AES, HMAC, HMAC-SHA-256
Hash functions
SHA1, SHA-256, SHA-512, SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512, SHAKE128, SHAKE256, MD5
Schemes
MAC
Block cipher modes
ECB, XTS

Security level
level 1, Level 1

Author Dan Sivertson
Creation date D:20201022100834-04'00'
Modification date D:20201022100834-04'00'
Pages 21
Creator Microsoft® Word for Office 365
Producer Microsoft® Word for Office 365

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Raw data

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