Suite B Cryptographic Module
United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) - FIPS 140 #2212
KEYW, in coordination with the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), has developed a Suite B-compliant, standards based, AES/GCM-256 layer of encrypted communications between a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) and a BlackBerry Mobile Set (MS) with Elliptic Curve (EC) key exchange used to negotiate symmetric keys.
Key facts
- Scheme
- FIPS 140
- Certificate
- 2212
- Standard
- FIPS 140-2
- Security level
- Level 1
- Status
- historical
- Vendor
- United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)
- Module type
- Software
- Embodiment
- Multi-Chip Stand Alone
- Lab
- COACT INC CAFE LAB
- First validated
- July 23, 2014
- Versions
- 2.3.1
- Caveat
- When operated in FIPS mode with module Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Kernel Mode Cryptographic Primitives Library (cng.sys) validated to FIPS 140-2 under Cert. #1335 operating in FIPS mode or BlackBerry Cryptographic Kernel validated to FIPS 140-2 under Cert. #1669 operating in FIPS mode
Algorithms
- AES
- CVL
- ECDSA
- HMAC
- SHS
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
- 132
- 133
- 1335
- 1669
- 998
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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