nForce 150 PCI and nForce 300 PCI
Caveat: When operated in FIPS mode
Certificate
| Certificate number | 149 |
|---|---|
| Standard | FIPS 140-1 |
| Status | historical |
| Overall level | 2 |
| Module type | Hardware |
| Embodiment | Multi-chip standalone |
| Vendor | nCipher Corporation Ltd. · website |
| Hardware versions | nC3022P-150 and nC3022P-300 |
| Firmware versions | 3.2 |
Module description
The nCipher nForce SSL family of secure e-commerce accelerators improves data security and increases server throughput in applications using the Secure Sockets Layer protocol such as: secure web servers, e-commerce sites, Internet financial transactions, authenticated access to intranets and extranets and digital signatures and secure messaging including X.400/EDI
Security level exceptions
- Cryptographic Module Design: Level 3
- Roles and Services: Level 3*
- Key Management: Level 3*
- Module Interfaces: Level 3
- Finite State Machine Model: Level 3
- Software Security: Level 3
- Self Tests: Level 3*
- *(Level 3 is met in these areas when the 'FIPS_level3' flag is set during initialization.)
Approved algorithms
| Algorithm | CAVP certificate |
|---|---|
| RSA | vendor affirmed |
| Triple-DES | 34 |
| Triple-DES MAC; DSA/SHA-1 |
Other algorithms
DES (Cert. #24); DES MAC; Rijndael, ARC FOUR, CAST5; HMAC (MD2, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-192, SHA-256 and RIPEMD160); ElGamal; Diffie-Hellman (key agreement)
Validation history
| Date | Type | Lab |
|---|---|---|
| 2001-05-23 | Initial | DOMUS |
Status timeline
As observed by this tracker's snapshots. NIST publishes no dates for list moves; observation began 2026-08-21, so earlier changes carry no date.
- 2026-08-21: first observed by this tracker, status historical
- Validation dates on record: 2001-05-23