Cisco Catalyst 9800 Wireless Controllers running IOS-XE 16.10

Certificate

Module description

The Cisco Series Wireless Controllers, are a highly scalable and flexible platform that enables system-wide services for mission-critical wireless networking in medium-sized to large enterprises and campus environments.

Security level exceptions

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

Approved algorithms

Allowed algorithms

Diffie-Hellman (key agreement; key establishment methodology provides 112 bits of encryption strength); Diffie-Hellman (CVL Cert. #C972 with CVL Cert. #C972, key agreement; key establishment methodology provides 112 bits of encryption strength); EC Diffie-Hellman (CVL Certs. #C861 and #C862 with CVL Certs. #C861 and #C862, key agreement; key establishment methodology provides between 128 and 256 bits of encryption strength); EC Diffie-Hellman (CVL Cert. #C972 with CVL Cert. #C972, key agreement; key establishment methodology provides 128 or 192 bits of encryption strength); NDRNG; RSA (key wrapping; key establishment methodology provides 112 or 128 bits of encryption strength)

Tested configurations

• N/A

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: 2020-05-20

Source documents

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