Tumbleweed Secure Mail™ Security Kernel
Tumbleweed Communications Corp. - FIPS 140 #258
The Tumbleweed Secure MailTM Application is a software products designed to allow organizations to apply content filtering and secure messaging policies on email. The Secure MailTM Application uses a shared set of cryptographic functionality called the Secure MailTM Security Kernel. The Secure MailTM Security Kernel exposes cryptographic application programming interface (API) calls to the other portions of Secure MailTM.
Key facts
- Scheme
- FIPS 140
- Certificate
- 258
- Standard
- FIPS 140-1
- Security level
- Level 1
- Status
- historical
- Vendor
- Tumbleweed Communications Corp.
- Module type
- Software
- Embodiment
- Multi-Chip Stand Alone
- Lab
- SAIC-VA
- First validated
- October 8, 2002
- Versions
- 5.0
- Caveat
- When operated in FIPS mode
Algorithms
- DSA
- RSA
- 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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