BlackBerry 850/857and BlackBerry 950/957Cryptographic Kernel
Research In Motion Ltd. - FIPS 140 #137
The BlackBerry crypto firmware v2.1, common to both the BlackBerry 850/857 and the BlackBerry 950/957, securely compresses and encrypts messages with Triple-DES. Following this procedure, the ciphertext is transmitted over the Internet to the recipient mail server. Upon receiving the message, the mail server decrypts and decompresses the ciphertext back to the original plaintext. The BlackBerry crypto firmware is messaging-system independent.
Key facts
- Scheme
- FIPS 140
- Certificate
- 137
- Standard
- FIPS 140-1
- Security level
- Level 1
- Status
- historical
- Vendor
- Research In Motion Ltd.
- Module type
- Firmware
- Embodiment
- Multi-Chip Stand Alone
- Lab
- DOMUS
- First validated
- March 1, 2001
- Versions
- 2.1
- Caveat
- When operated in FIPS mode
Algorithms
- SHA-1
- Triple-DES
Algorithm families of the CAVP certificates listed for this module, plus post-quantum algorithms named in its documents.
CVEs that may affect this product
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Documents and sources
Source: sec-certs.org (CRoCS, Masaryk University), from NIST CMVP and the Common Criteria Portal - dataset of September 21, 2026 - synced October 15, 2026
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