Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 GnuTLS Cryptographic Module

Certificate

Module description

GnuTLS is a secure communications library implementing the TLS and DTLS protocols. It provides a simple C language application programming interface to access the secure communications protocols as well as APIs to parse and write X.509, PCKS#12, and other required structures which is shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6.

Security level exceptions

• Physical Security: N/A

Approved algorithms

Allowed algorithms

Diffie-Hellman (Cert. #A120, key agreement; key establishment methodology provides between 112 and 256 bits of encryption strength); EC Diffie-Hellman (Cert. #A120, key agreement; key establishment methodology provides between 128 and 256 bits of encryption strength); MD5; NDRNG; RSA (key wrapping; key establishment methodology provides between 112 and 256 bits of encryption strength);

Tested configurations

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 running on Dell PowerEdge R430 with an Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5 with PAA
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 running on Dell PowerEdge R430 with an Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5 without PAA (single-user mode)

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: 2021-02-08

Source documents

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