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NITROXIII CNN35XX-NFBE HSM Family

FIPS 140-2 certificate #2850 · Cavium Inc. · data as of 2026-10-21

NITROXIII CNN35XX-NFBE HSM Family, from Cavium Inc., holds FIPS 140-2 certificate #2850 at overall level 3. 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. 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. The module generates cryptographic keys whose strengths are modified by available entropy

Certificate

Certificate number2850
StandardFIPS 140-2
Statushistorical
Overall level3
Module typeHardware
EmbodimentMulti-Chip Embedded
VendorCavium Inc. · website
Hardware versionsP/Ns CNL3560P-NFBE-G [1], CNL3560P-NFBE-2.0-G [2], CNL3560-NFBE-G [1], CNL3530-NFBE-G [1], CNL3510-NFBE-G [1], CNL3510P-NFBE-G [1], CNN3560P-NFBE-G [1], CNN3560-NFBE-G [1], CNN3560-NFBE-2.0-G [2], CNN3530-NFBE-G [1], CNN3530-NFBE-2.0-G [2], CNN3510-NFBE-G [1], CNN3510-NFBE-2.0-G [2], CNN3505LP-NFBE-2.0-G [2] and CNN3510LP-NFBE-2.0-G [2]
Firmware versionsCNN35XX-NFBE-FW-2.03 build 10 [1], CNN35XX-NFBE-FW-2.03 build 13 [1], CNN35XX-NFBE-FW-2.03 build 20 [1], CNN35XX-NFBE-FW-2.03 build 21 [1], CNN35XX-NFBE-FW-2.03 build 22 [1] and CNN35XX-NFBE-FW-2.03 build 13-HW2.0 [1, 2]

Module description

Quoted from the NIST CMVP entry for this certificate.

CNN35XX-NFBE HSM Family is a high performance purpose built solution for key management and crypto acceleration compliance to FIPS 140-2. The module supports flexible key store that can be partitioned up to 32 individually managed and isolated partitions. This is a SRIOV capable PCIe adapter and can be used in a virtualization environment to extend services like virtual key management, crypto and TLS offloads to VMs in dedicated I/O channels. This product is suitable for PKI vendors, SSL servers/load balancers.

Security level exceptions

  • Mitigation of Other Attacks: N/A

Approved algorithms (12)

AlgorithmCAVP certificates
AES2033, 2034, 2035, 3205, 3206, 4104
CVL167, 563
DRBG680
DSA916
ECDSA589
HMAC1233, 2019
KASvendor affirmed
KBKDF65
KTS
RSA1634, 2218
SHS1780, 2652
Triple-DES1311, 2242

Other algorithms

MD5; NDRNG; RSA (key wrapping; key establishment methodology provides 112 or 128 bits of encryption strength); PBE; RC4

Tested configurations

  • N/A

Validation history

DateTypeLab
2017-02-27InitialUL Verification Services, Inc.
2017-02-28UpdateUL Verification Services, Inc.
2017-04-04UpdateUL Verification Services, Inc.
2017-08-04UpdateUL Verification Services, Inc.
2017-08-31UpdateUL Verification Services, Inc.
2017-11-09UpdateUL Verification Services, Inc.
2018-02-21UpdateUL Verification Services, Inc.
2018-03-15UpdateUL Verification Services, Inc.
2018-03-26UpdateUL Verification Services, 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: 2017-02-27, 2017-02-28, 2017-04-04, 2017-08-04, 2017-08-31, 2017-11-09, 2018-02-21, 2018-03-15, 2018-03-26

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