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NITROX XL 1600-NFBE HSM Family

Cavium Inc. - FIPS 140 #3248

historicalLevel 3

The NITROX XL 1600-NFBE HSM adapter family delivers the world's fastest FIPS 140-2 Level 3 Hardware Security Module (HSM) with PCIe Gen 2.0. The HSM family of offers up to 9000 RSA 2k-bit operations per second and 5 Gbps of bulk crypto.

Key facts

Scheme
FIPS 140
Certificate
3248
Standard
FIPS 140-2
Security level
Level 3
Status
historical
Vendor
Cavium Inc.
Module type
Hardware
Embodiment
Multi-Chip Embedded
Lab
UL Verification Services, Inc.
First validated
July 27, 2018
Versions
P/Ns CN1610-NFBE1-3.0-G, CN1620-NFBE1-3.0-G, CN1620-NFBE3-3.0-G, CN1610-NFBE1-2.0-G, CN1620-NFBE1-2.0-G, CN1620-NFBE3-2.0-G and FN1620-NFBE2-G; CN16XX-NFBE-FW-2.3-180205
Caveat
When operated in FIPS mode and initialized and configured per the Security Policy

Algorithms

  • AES
  • CVL
  • DRBG
  • ECDSA
  • HMAC
  • KAS
  • KTS
  • 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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Certificates it builds on

  • 1166

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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