Allegro Cryptographic Engine

Certificate

Module description

Allegro’s suite of Embedded Device Security toolkits makes embedding standards-based security protocols into resource sensitive embedded systems and consumer electronics fast, easy and reliable. The Allegro Cryptographic Engine (ACE) is a cryptographic library module specifically engineered for embedded devices. The module provides embedded systems developers with an easily understood software interface to enable bulk encryption and decryption, message digests, digital signature creation and validation and key generation and exchange. For full details see www.allegrosoft.com/ace.

Security level exceptions

• Physical Security: N/A
• Mitigation of Other Attacks: N/A

Approved algorithms

Allowed algorithms

Diffie-Hellman (CVL Cert. #927, key agreement; key establishment methodology provides 112 or 128 bits of encryption strength); EC Diffie-Hellman (CVL Cert. #927, key agreement; key establishment methodology provides between 112 and 256 bits of encryption strength); RSA (key wrapping; key establishment methodology provides 112 or 128 bits of encryption strength); MD5; NDRNG

Tested configurations

• Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon running on an Intel NUC System with PAA
• Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon running on an Intel NUC System without PAA (single-user mode)
• Windows 10 running on a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 with PAA
• Windows 10 running on a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 without PAA

Validation history

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: 2017-07-20

Source documents

• NIST certificate page
• Security policy (PDF)
• Consolidated certificate (PDF)