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Ubuntu 18.04 Strongswan Cryptographic Module

FIPS 140-2 certificate #3648 · Canonical Ltd. · data as of 2026-08-28
Historical. SP 800-56Arev3 transition. Federal agencies may reference historical validations for existing systems only, not for new procurement.
Caveat: When operated in FIPS mode and installed, initialized and configured as specified in Section 9.1 of the Security Policy with module Ubuntu OpenSSL Cryptographic Module validated to FIPS 140-2 under Cert. #3622 operating in FIPS mode and with module Ubuntu Kernel Crypto API Cryptographic Module validated to FIPS140-2 under Cert. #3647 operating in FIPS mode

Certificate

Certificate number3648
StandardFIPS 140-2
Statushistorical
Overall level1
Module typeSoftware
EmbodimentMulti-Chip Stand Alone
VendorCanonical Ltd. · website
Software versions2.0 [1] and 2.1 [2]

Module description

Ubuntu 18.04 Strongswan Cryptographic Module provides cryptographic services for the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) protocol in the Ubuntu Operating System user space.

Security level exceptions

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

Approved algorithms

Allowed algorithms

Diffie-Hellman (CVL Certs. #C682, #C683, #C684, #C685, #C687 and #C688 with CVL Certs. #C752 and #C753, key agreement; key establishment methodology provides between 112 and 192 bits of encryption strength); EC Diffie-Hellman (CVL Certs. #C682, #C683, #C684, #C685, #C687 and #C688 with CVL Certs. #C752 and #C753, key agreement; key establishment methodology provides between 112 and 256 bits of encryption strength); NDRNG

Tested configurations

  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit on IBM z/VM running on IBM z/14 with z14 with PAI [1]
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit on IBM z/VM running on IBM z/14 with z14 without PAI [1] (single-user mode)
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit running on Supermicro SYS-5018R-WR with Intel Xeon CPU E5-2620v3 with PAA [1][2]
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit running on Supermicro SYS-5018R-WR with Intel Xeon CPU E5-2620v3 without PAA [1][2]

Validation history

DateTypeLab
2020-04-29Initialatsec information security corporation
2020-11-30Updateatsec information security corporation
2021-09-21Updateatsec information security corporation
2021-10-18Updateatsec information security corporation

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: 2020-04-29, 2020-11-30, 2021-09-21, 2021-10-18

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