ValiCert Security Module
Tumbleweed Communications Corp. - FIPS 140 #288
The ValiCert VA Toolkit 4.3 is built on our FIPS 140-1 cryptographic module. The 4.3 toolkit release has several new APIs and features. The library is also used within ValiCert Desktop Validator, Server Validators, Enterprise Validation Server, Document Authority, and Secure Transport Products. New features in VA Toolkit 4.3 include New APIs for fetching CRLs; Extended APIs for Certificate-Store ; Extended support for CRLs ; JITC compliance features ; TLS ; SSL Tunneling via Proxy Servers. The 4.3 release and prior releases support OCSP, SCVP, CRL, CRLdp protocols over HTTP, and HTTPS. The VA Toolkit 4.3 supports Windows 98/ NT/2000, Solaris 5.6/5.7/5.8, HP UX 11.0, and AIX 4.3. The Toolkit works along with FIPS 140-1 Level 3 and Level 4 validated hardware devices: e.g. nCipher, Baltimore, and Chrysalis-ITS hardware signing / encryption modules. The toolkit is also tested for interoperability with various PKI vendors: AOL/Netscape, Sun/Iplanet, Entrust, Baltimore, Verisign, Computer Associates and RSA Security products.
Key facts
- Scheme
- FIPS 140
- Certificate
- 288
- Standard
- FIPS 140-1
- Security level
- Level 1
- Status
- historical
- Vendor
- Tumbleweed Communications Corp.
- Module type
- Software
- Embodiment
- Multi-Chip Stand Alone
- Lab
- UL Verification Services, Inc.
- First validated
- February 4, 2003
- Versions
- SW 1.0
- Caveat
- When operated in FIPS mode
Algorithms
- HMAC-SHA-1
- 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
sec-certs has not matched any CVE to this certificate. That is not proof the product is unaffected.
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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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