TecSec Armored Card - Contact Cryptographic Module
TecSec Incorporated - FIPS 140 #1992
The TecSec Armored Card is a cryptographic module which provides enterprise personnel identification, persistent data security for data in transit and at rest, with additional support for physical/logical/functional/content authorization. The Chip is part of a dual-chip PIV smart card that is fully compliant with the end-point service specified in SP800-73-1. This Contact Chip Provides 368k eprom memory leveraging a common robust identity process and additionally providing a federation platform for multiple applications from multiple owners enforced by cryptographic separation.
Key facts
- Scheme
- FIPS 140
- Certificate
- 1992
- Standard
- FIPS 140-2
- Security level
- Level 2
- Status
- historical
- Vendor
- TecSec Incorporated
- Module type
- Hardware
- Embodiment
- Single Chip
- Lab
- UL Verification Services, Inc.
- First validated
- August 19, 2013
- Versions
- P/N Inside Secure AT90SC320288RCT Revision E; P/Ns Athena IDProtect Version 0108.0264.0001, TecSec SSD Applet Version 1.001, TecSec PIV Applet Version 1.007, TecSec BOCC Applet Version 1.001, TecSec CKM Attribute Container Applet Version 1.002, TecSec CKM Info Applet Version 1.000
- Caveat
- When operated with the fingerprint authentication mechanism parameters configured as indicated in the Security Policy Section 9. No assurance of Secure Channel Protocol (SCP) message integrity
Algorithms
- 02/06/14:
- AES
- CVL
- DRBG
- ECDSA
- HMAC
- KBKDF
- RSA
- SHS
- 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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