nShield Connect 6000 [1], nShield Connect 1500 [2] and nShield Connect 500 [3]
Thales - nCipher - FIPS 140 #1571
The Thales nShield Connect is a network-attached hardware security module for business continuity of always-on, mission-critical systems in shared infrastructures, providing high availability, scalability and remote management for cryptographic infrastructures. Part of the nCipher product line, nShield Connect is the world's first HSM with redundant, hot-swappable power supplies, and enables organizations to build reliable, large-scale cryptographic services for their infrastructures.
Key facts
- Scheme
- FIPS 140
- Certificate
- 1571
- Standard
- FIPS 140-2
- Security level
- Level 3
- Status
- historical
- Vendor
- Thales - nCipher
- Module type
- Hardware
- Embodiment
- Multi-Chip Stand Alone
- Lab
- CYGNACOM SOLUTIONS INC
- First validated
- July 13, 2011
- Versions
- NH2047 [1], NH2040 [2] and NH2033 [3], Build Standard N; V11.30
- Caveat
- When operated in FIPS mode with nShield PCIe validated to FIPS 140-2 under Cert. #1063
Algorithms
- AES
- AES GCM
- DSA
- ECDSA
- HMAC
- RNG
- RSA
- SHS
- Triple-DES
- Triple-DES MAC
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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Certificates it builds on
- 1063
Certificate ids found in this certificate's documents (automated extraction).
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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