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McAfee Email Gateway for Virtual Environments

FIPS 140-2 certificate #2235 · McAfee, Inc. · data as of 2026-10-21

McAfee Email Gateway for Virtual Environments, from McAfee, Inc., holds FIPS 140-2 certificate #2235 at overall level 1. The validation is historical: agencies may keep the module in existing systems but not buy it new. Below are its validation history, algorithm certificates and security policy, drawn from the NIST CMVP entry.

Historical. RNG SP800-131A Revision 1 Transition. Federal agencies may reference historical validations for existing systems only, not for new procurement.
Caveat: When operated in FIPS mode

Certificate

Certificate number2235
StandardFIPS 140-2
Statushistorical
Overall level1
Module typeSoftware
EmbodimentMulti-chip standalone
VendorMcAfee, Inc. · website
Software versions7.0.1

Module description

Quoted from the NIST CMVP entry for this certificate.

McAfee Email Gateway integrates comprehensive inbound threat protection with outbound data loss prevention, advanced compliance, performance reporting, and simplified administration. By combining local network information with global reputation intelligence from McAfee Global Threat Intelligence, it provides the most complete protection available against inbound threats, spam and malware. Its sophisticated content scanning technologies, multiple encryption techniques, and granular, policy-based message handling prevent outbound data loss and simplify compliance.

Security level exceptions

  • Roles, Services, and Authentication: Level 3
  • Physical Security: N/A
  • Design Assurance: Level 3
  • Mitigation of Other Attacks: N/A

Approved algorithms (7)

AlgorithmCAVP certificates
AES2012, 2079, 2280
DSA638, 654, 710
HMAC1217, 1260
RNG1054, 1077, 1133
RSA1041, 1074, 1171
SHS1762, 1809, 1962
Triple-DES1298, 1330, 1428

Other algorithms

Diffie-Hellman (key agreement; key establishment methodology provides 112 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112 bits of encryption strength); RSA (key wrapping; key establishment methodology provides 112 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112 bits of encryption strength); NDRNG; DES-CBC3-MD5; DES-CBC-MD5; DES-CBC-SHA; EDH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA; EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA; EXP-DES-CBC-SHA; EXP-EDH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA; EXP-EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA; EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5; EXP-RC4-MD5; IDEA-CBC-MD5; IDEA-CBC-SHA; RC2-CBC-MD5; RC4-MD5; RC4-SHA; BLOWFISH; CAMELLIA128; CAMELLIA192; CAMELLIA256; CAST5; MD5; RIPEMD160; TWOFISH; DES; MD2; HMAC MD5; DES40; RC2; RC4; RC5; ECAES; RSA PKCS#1 V.2.0 (SHA256 - OAEP; non-compliant)

Tested configurations

  • Intel Xeon w/ Red Hat Linux 9 running on VMware ESXi v4.1 and ESXi v5.0 (single-user mode)

Validation history

DateTypeLab
2014-11-04InitialCOACT INC CAFE LAB

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: 2014-11-04

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