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NSS Cryptographic Module

FIPS 140-2 certificate #1837 · Red Hat®, Inc. · data as of 2026-08-28
Historical. Moved to historical list due to sunsetting. Federal agencies may reference historical validations for existing systems only, not for new procurement.
Caveat: When operated in FIPS mode and when obtained, installed, and initialized as specified in Section 5 of the provided Security Policy. Section 5 also specifies the precise RPM file containing this module. The integrity of the RPM is automatically verified during the installation and the Crypto officer shall not install the RPM file if the RPM tool indicates an integrity error. Any deviation from the specified verification, installation and initialization procedures will result in a non FIPS 140-2 compliant module. The module generates cryptographic keys whose strengths are modified by available entropy.

Certificate

Certificate number1837
StandardFIPS 140-2
Statushistorical
Overall level1
Module typeSoftware
EmbodimentMulti-chip standalone
VendorRed Hat®, Inc. · website
Software versions3.12.9.1

Module 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 Internet security standards. NSS is available free of charge under a variety of open source compatible licenses. See http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ .

Security level exceptions

  • Design Assurance: Level 2

Approved algorithms

AlgorithmCAVP certificate
AES1908
DRBG165
DSA602
HMAC1145
RSA979
SHS1675
Triple-DES1240

Other algorithms

AES (Cert. #1908, key wrapping; key establishment methodology provides between 128 and 256 bits of encryption strength); Camellia; DES; Diffie-Hellman (key agreement; key establishment methodology provides 112 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112 bits of encryption strength); HKDF; J-PAKE; MD2; MD5; RC2; RC4; RSA (key wrapping; key establishment methodology provides between 112 and 150 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112 bits of encryption strength); SEED; Triple-DES (Cert. #1240, key wrapping; key establishment methodology provides 112 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112 bits of encryption strength)

Tested configurations

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux v6.2 32-bit running on an Intel Core i7 system
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux v6.2 64-bit running on an Intel Core i7 system
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux v6.2 64-bit running on an Intel Core i7 system with PAA (single-user mode)

Validation history

DateTypeLab
2012-11-08InitialSAIC-VA

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: 2012-11-08

Source documents