RSA BSAFE® Crypto-C Micro Edition (ME)
Certificate
| Certificate number | 865 |
|---|---|
| Standard | FIPS 140-2 |
| Status | historical |
| Overall level | 1 |
| Module type | Software |
| Embodiment | Multi-chip standalone |
| Vendor | RSA, The Security Division of EMC · website |
| Software versions | 2.1.0.2 [1], 2.1.0.3 [2], 2.1.0.6 [3] and 2.1.0.7 [4] |
Module description
The Crypto-C Micro Edition (ME) Module is RSA Security Inc.'s cryptographic library designed for securing mobile devices like wireless phones and personal digital assistants. It contains assembly-level optimizations on key wireless processors. Its functionality includes a wide range of data encryption and signing algorithms, including Triple-DES, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm, the RSA Public Key Cryptosystem, the DSA government signature algorithm, MD5 and SHA1 message digest routines, and more.
Approved algorithms
| Algorithm | CAVP certificate |
|---|---|
| AES | 644, 673, 1031, 1406 |
| DSA | 242, 254, 348, 454 |
| ECDSA | 68, 74, 124, 178 |
| HMAC | 333, 357, 578, 827 |
| RNG | 367, 392, 586, 771 |
| RSA | 295, 314, 493, 683 |
| SHS | 679, 706, 984, 1276 |
| Triple-DES | 596, 618, 788, 959 |
Other algorithms
MD2; MD5; HMAC MD5; DES; DES40; RC2; RC4; RC5; ECAES (non-compliant); RSA (key wrapping; key establishment methodology provides at least 112 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112 bits of encryption strength); Diffie-Hellman (key agreement; key establishment methodology provides at least 112 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112 bits of encryption strength); EC Diffie-Hellman (key agreement; key establishment methodology provides between 112 and 285 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112 bits of encryption strength)
Tested configurations
- [1]: AIX 5L v5.2 (32-bit PowerPC)
- AIX 5L v5.2 (64-bit PowerPC)
- AIX 5L v5.3 (32-bit PowerPC)
- AIX 5L v5.3 (64-bit PowerPC)
- HP-UX 11.11 PA-RISC 2.0 (32-bit)
- HP-UX 11.23 Itanium 2 (32-bit)
- HP-UX 11.23 Itanium 2 (64-bit)
- HP-UX 11.23 PA-RISC2.0W (64-bit)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.0 (32-bit x86)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.0 (64-bit x86_64)
- Solaris 10 (32-bit SPARC v8)
- Solaris 10 (32-bit SPARC v8+)
- Solaris 10 (64-bit SPARC v9)
- Solaris 10 (64-bit x86_64)
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0 (32-bit x86)
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0 (64-bit x86_64)
- VxWorks 5.4 (PPC 604)
- VxWorks 5.5 (PPC 603)
- VxWorks 5.5 (PPC 604)
- VxWorks General Purpose Platform 6.0 (PPC 604)
- Windows 2003 Server SP1 (32-bit x86 - VS8.0 build)
- Windows 2003 Server SP1 (64-bit x86_64)
- Windows 2003 Server SP1 (Itanium 2). [1] and [2]: Windows 2003 SP1 (32-bit x86 - VS6.0 build). [3] Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit x86). [4] Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5 (64-bit IBM PowerPC Power3) (single-user mode)
- Windows Mobile 2003
- Windows Mobile 2003 Phone Edition
- Windows Mobile 5.0
- Windows Mobile 5.0 Phone Edition
Validation history
| Date | Type | Lab |
|---|---|---|
| 2007-11-19 | Initial | SAIC-VA |
| 2007-12-20 | Update | |
| 2008-01-04 | Update | |
| 2008-10-16 | Update | |
| 2009-04-03 | Update | |
| 2010-08-20 | Update | |
| 2010-09-07 | Update | SAIC-VA |
| 2011-03-28 | Update | SAIC-VA |
| 2013-01-24 | Update |
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: 2007-11-19, 2007-12-20, 2008-01-04, 2008-10-16, 2009-04-03, 2010-08-20, 2010-09-07, 2011-03-28, 2013-01-24