BlackBerry Cryptographic Tool Kit
Certificate
| Certificate number | 2402 |
|---|---|
| Standard | FIPS 140-2 |
| Status | historical |
| Overall level | 1 |
| Module type | Software |
| Embodiment | Multi-chip standalone |
| Vendor | BlackBerry Limited · website |
| Software versions | 6.0, 6.0.2 and 6.0.3 |
Module description
The BlackBerry Cryptographic Tool Kit is a standards-based cryptographic toolkit that supports optimized Elliptic Curve Cryptography and provides application developers with sophisticated tools to flexibly integrate encryption, digital signatures and other security mechanisms into both mobile and server-based applications. The BlackBerry Cryptographic Tool Kit, part of the suite of BlackBerry cryptographic modules, provides application developers with a means to expand the secure capabilities and features BlackBerry is known for, to devices running operating systems other than BlackBerry OS.
Security level exceptions
- Physical Security: N/A
Approved algorithms
| Algorithm | CAVP certificate |
|---|---|
| AES | 1789, 3029 |
| CVL | 7, 367, 789 |
| DRBG | 127, 579, 1151 |
| DSA | 563, 891, 1076 |
| ECDSA | 242, 553, 866 |
| HMAC | 1054, 1914, 2571 |
| KAS | 25, 50, 79 |
| RSA | 894, 1574, 2017 |
| SHS | 1571, 2530, 3256 |
| Triple-DES | 1159, 1773, 2164 |
Other algorithms
DES; DESX; AES CCM* (non-compliant); AES-XCBC-MAC (non-compliant); AES EAX (non-compliant); AES MMO (non-compliant); ARC2; ARC4; MD2; MD4; MD5; HMAC-MD5; ECNR; ECQV; ECPVS; ECIES; ECSPEKE; RSA (key wrapping; key establishment methodology provides between 112 and 256 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112-bits of encryption strength); Diffie-Hellman (key agreement; key establishment methodology provides less than 80 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant)
Tested configurations
- Android 4.0.4
- Android 4.4.2
- Android 5.0.1
- CentOS Linux Release 7.1 64-bit
- iOS 8.0
- iOS version 6.1.4
- Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 (single-user mode)
- Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.4
- QNX Neutrino 6.5
- QNX Neutrino 6.6
- Red Hat Linux AS 5.6
- Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit
- Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit
- Windows Phone 8.0
Validation history
| Date | Type | Lab |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-01 | Initial | CGI Information Systems & Management Consultants Inc |
| 2016-03-16 | Update | CGI Information Systems & Management Consultants Inc |
| 2016-06-03 | Update | CGI Information Systems & Management Consultants Inc |
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: 2015-07-01, 2016-03-16, 2016-06-03