Network Security Services (NSS) Cryptographic Module (Basic ECC)

Certificate details

Certificate ID #1278
Status historical
Historical reason Moved to historical list due to sunsetting
Validation dates 29.03.2010
Standard FIPS 140-2
Security level 1
Type Software
Embodiment Multi-Chip Stand Alone
Caveat When operated in FIPS mode
Description Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of open source C libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled applications. NSS implements major crypto algorithms and Internet security standards, and supports smartcards and hardware crypto devices. NSS is available free of charge under the Mozilla Public License, the GNU General Public License, and the GNU Lesser General Public License. For more information, see http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
Tested configurations
  • Apple Mac OS X 10.5 (single-user mode)
  • Microsoft Windows XP with SP3
Vendor Sun Microsystems, Inc., Red Hat®, Inc. and Mozilla Foundation, Inc. http://wiki.mozilla.org/FIPS_Validation
Lab SAIC-VA
Algorithms
References

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Certificate
Webpage

Security policy

Extracted keywords

Symmetric Algorithms
AES, RC2, RC4, DES, Triple-DES, SEED, HMAC
Asymmetric Algorithms
ECDSA, ECC, Diffie-Hellman, DSA
Hash functions
SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, MD5, PBKDF1
Schemes
MAC
Protocols
TLS
Randomness
DRBG
Libraries
NSS
Elliptic Curves
P-256, P-384, P-521, Curve P-256
Block cipher modes
ECB, CBC

Security level
Level 1, level 1, Level 2
Side-channel analysis
Timing attacks, Timing attack, timing attacks, Timing Attacks

Title Security Policy - MozillaWiki
Keywords Security Policy
Creation date D:20100205174817-08'00'
Modification date D:20100208150707-05'00'
Pages 32
Creator Writer
Producer OpenOffice.org 3.1

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