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Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers without MACSEC

FIPS 140-2 certificate #3988 · Cisco Systems, Inc. · data as of 2026-08-28
Historical. SP 800-56Arev3 transition - replaced by certificate #4643. Federal agencies may reference historical validations for existing systems only, not for new procurement.
Caveat: When operated in FIPS mode, installed, initialized and configured as specified in Section 9 of the Security Policy

Certificate

Certificate number3988
StandardFIPS 140-2
Statushistorical
Overall level1
Module typeHardware
EmbodimentMulti-Chip Stand Alone
VendorCisco Systems, Inc. · website
Hardware versionsASR1002-X, [ASR1004 and ASR1006 with components ASR-1000-RP2, ASR1000-ESP20 and ASR1000-ESP40]
Firmware versionsCisco IOS-XE 16.12

Module description

The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers accelerate services by offering performance and resiliency with optimized, intelligent services; establishing a benchmark for price-to-performance offerings in the enterprise routing, service provider edge, and broadband aggregation segments; facilitating significant network innovations in areas such as secure WAN aggregation, managed customer-premises-equipment services, and service provider edge services; reducing operating expenses and capital expenditures by facilitating managed or hosted services over identical architectures and operating environments.

Security level exceptions

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

Approved algorithms

AlgorithmCAVP certificate
AES333, 4583, C462
CVL1257, 1258, C462
DRBG1529, C462
HMAC137, 3034, C462
KTS
KTS
KTS
RSA2500, C462
SHS408, 3760, C462
Triple-DES397, 2436, C462

Allowed algorithms

Diffie-Hellman (CVL Cert. #1257 with CVL Cert. #1258, key agreement; key establishment methodology provides between 112 and 150 bits of encryption strength); EC Diffie-Hellman (CVL Cert. #1257 with CVL Cert. #1258, 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

DateTypeLab
2021-07-19InitialAcumen Security
2021-08-25UpdateAcumen Security

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: 2021-07-19, 2021-08-25

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