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Kasten BoringCrypto

Certificate #4353

Webpage information

Status	historical
Historical reason	Moved to historical list due to sunsetting
Validation dates	03.11.2022
Standard	FIPS 140-2
Security level	1
Type	Software
Embodiment	Multi-Chip Stand Alone
Caveat	When installed, initialized and configured as specified in Section 12.1 of the Security Policy and operated in FIPS mode. The module generates cryptographic keys whose strengths are modified by available entropy
Exceptions	Physical Security: N/A Mitigation of Other Attacks: N/A
Description	A software library that contains cryptographic functionality to serve BoringSSL and other user-space applications.
Tested configurations	Debian Linux 4.19.37 (Rodete) running on an HPE Z620 with Intel Xeon E5-2680 without PAA Debian Linux 4.19.37 (Rodete) running on HPE Z620 with Intel Xeon E5-2680 with PAA Ubuntu Linux 18.04 running on a Google Arcadia-Rome with AMD Rome with PAA Ubuntu Linux 18.04 running on a Google Arcadia-Rome with AMD Rome without PAA Ubuntu Linux 18.04 running on a Zaius P9 with POWER9 with PAA Ubuntu Linux 18.04 running on a Zaius P9 with POWER9 without PAA (single-user mode)
Vendor	Kasten, 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, AES-256, DES, Triple-DES, TDEA, HMAC, HMAC-SHA-256, HMAC-SHA-384, HMAC-SHA-512, CMAC

Asymmetric Algorithms

ECDSA, ECC, DH, Diffie-Hellman

Hash functions

SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA-256, MD4, MD5

Schemes

MAC, Key Agreement

Protocols

TLS, TLS 1.0

Randomness

DRBG

Libraries

BoringSSL

Elliptic Curves

P-224, P-256, P-384, P-521

Block cipher modes

ECB, CBC, CTR, CFB, OFB, GCM

Security level

Level 1

Standards

FIPS 140-2, FIPS 140, FIPS 197, FIPS 186-4, FIPS 198-1, FIPS 180-4, FIPS PUB 140-2, SP 800-38A, SP 800-38F, SP 800-38D, SP 800-133, SP 800-67, SP 800-135, NIST SP 800-133, NIST SP 800-90A, SP 800-90A, NIST SP 800-52, NIST SP 800-38D, NIST SP 800-131A, SP 800-56A, SP 800-52, RFC 5288, RFC 5246

File metadata

Author	Matt Bator
Creation date	D:20221003134239+00'00'
Modification date	D:20221003134239+00'00'
Pages	24
Creator	Microsoft Word

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.
14.07.2025

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The web extraction data was updated.

The status property was set to historical.

The historical_reason property was set to Moved to historical list due to sunsetting.

The date_sunset property was set to None.
09.02.2023

The certificate data changed.
Certificate changed

The cert_id was updated.

The new value is 4353.

The web extraction data was updated.

The following values were inserted: {'validation_history': [{'_type': 'sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.ValidationHistoryEntry', 'date': '2022-11-03', 'validation_type': 'Initial', 'lab': 'LEIDOS CSTL'}], 'vendor_url': 'http://www.kasten.io', 'certificate_pdf_url': 'https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/documents/certificates/November 2022_051222_0640_signed.pdf', 'hw_versions': None, 'fw_versions': None}.

The standard property was set to FIPS 140-2.

The status property was set to active.

The level property was set to 1.

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

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': 412214, 'pdf_is_encrypted': False, 'pdf_number_of_pages': 24, '/Author': 'Matt Bator', '/Creator': 'Microsoft Word', '/CreationDate': "D:20221003134239+00'00'", '/ModDate': "D:20221003134239+00'00'", 'pdf_hyperlinks': {'_type': 'Set', 'elements': ['https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-boringssl-fips/boringssl-ae223d6138807a13006342edfeef32e813246b39.tar.xz', 'http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/index.html']}}}.

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': ['CVL#C1063', 'RSA#C1063', 'HMAC#C1063', 'AES#C1063', 'ECDSA#C1063', 'KTS#C1063', 'SHS#C1063', 'Triple-DES#C1063', 'DRBG#C1063']}.

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': '84cea49f6af0aed4adbe270ba96021a1539351f9f59cb02d7377416c08ec6ecf', 'policy_txt_hash': '82d7b842555e26926f44d69b0aa986be4d090e47f9fa808146dca025e0ac1636'}.

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.
05.11.2022

The certificate was first processed.

Raw data

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        "AES#C1063",
        "KTS#C1063",
        "ECDSA#C1063",
        "Triple-DES#C1063",
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        "SHS#C1063",
        "DRBG#C1063",
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    },
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    "direct_transitive_cves": null,
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    "module_processed_references": {
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    },
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          "ECDSA": {
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        "FF": {
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        }
      },
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        "CFB": {
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        "ECB": {
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        "GCM": {
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        "OFB": {
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        }
      },
      "cplc_data": {},
      "crypto_engine": {},
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      },
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        }
      },
      "crypto_scheme": {
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        "MAC": {
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      },
      "device_model": {},
      "ecc_curve": {
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      "eval_facility": {},
      "fips_cert_id": {},
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      "fips_security_level": {
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      },
      "hash_function": {
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          "MD5": {
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        },
        "SHA": {
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          "SHA2": {
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            "SHA-384": 1,
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        }
      },
      "ic_data_group": {},
      "javacard_api_const": {},
      "javacard_packages": {},
      "javacard_version": {},
      "os_name": {},
      "pq_crypto": {},
      "randomness": {
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      "side_channel_analysis": {},
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      },
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          }
        }
      },
      "tee_name": {},
      "tls_cipher_suite": {},
      "vendor": {},
      "vulnerability": {}
    },
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      "/Author": "Matt Bator",
      "/CreationDate": "D:20221003134239+00\u002700\u0027",
      "/Creator": "Microsoft Word",
      "/ModDate": "D:20221003134239+00\u002700\u0027",
      "pdf_file_size_bytes": 412214,
      "pdf_hyperlinks": {
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        ]
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    "module_download_ok": true,
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  },
  "web_data": {
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    "caveat": "When installed, initialized and configured as specified in Section 12.1 of the Security Policy and operated in FIPS mode. The module generates cryptographic keys whose strengths are modified by available entropy",
    "certificate_pdf_url": "https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/documents/certificates/November 2022_051222_0640_signed.pdf",
    "date_sunset": null,
    "description": "A software library that contains cryptographic functionality to serve BoringSSL and other user-space applications.",
    "embodiment": "Multi-Chip Stand Alone",
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      "Physical Security: N/A",
      "Mitigation of Other Attacks: N/A"
    ],
    "fw_versions": null,
    "historical_reason": "Moved to historical list due to sunsetting",
    "hw_versions": null,
    "level": 1,
    "mentioned_certs": {},
    "module_name": "Kasten BoringCrypto",
    "module_type": "Software",
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    "standard": "FIPS 140-2",
    "status": "historical",
    "sw_versions": "ae223d6138807a13006342edfeef32e813246b39",
    "tested_conf": [
      "Debian Linux 4.19.37 (Rodete) running on an HPE Z620 with Intel Xeon E5-2680 without PAA",
      "Debian Linux 4.19.37 (Rodete) running on HPE Z620 with Intel Xeon E5-2680 with PAA",
      "Ubuntu Linux 18.04 running on a Google Arcadia-Rome with AMD Rome with PAA",
      "Ubuntu Linux 18.04 running on a Google Arcadia-Rome with AMD Rome without PAA",
      "Ubuntu Linux 18.04 running on a Zaius P9 with POWER9 with PAA",
      "Ubuntu Linux 18.04 running on a Zaius P9 with POWER9 without PAA (single-user mode)"
    ],
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        "_type": "sec_certs.sample.fips.FIPSCertificate.ValidationHistoryEntry",
        "date": "2022-11-03",
        "lab": "Leidos Accredited Testing \u0026 Evaluation (AT\u0026E) Lab",
        "validation_type": "Initial"
      }
    ],
    "vendor": "Kasten, Inc.",
    "vendor_url": "http://www.kasten.io"
  }
}

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