Red Hat Enterprise Linux NSS Cryptographic Module
Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 #3270
Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of open source C libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled applications. NSS implements major Internet security standards. NSS is available free of charge under a variety of open source compatible licenses. See http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/.
Key facts
- Scheme
- FIPS 140
- Certificate
- 3270
- Standard
- FIPS 140-2
- Security level
- Level 1
- Status
- historical
- Vendor
- Red Hat®, Inc.
- Module type
- Software
- Embodiment
- Multi-Chip Stand Alone
- Lab
- atsec information security corporation
- First validated
- August 29, 2018
- Versions
- 6.0
- Caveat
- When operated in FIPS mode. The module generates cryptographic keys whose strengths are modified by available entropy
Algorithms
- AES
- CVL
- DRBG
- DSA
- ECDSA
- HMAC
- 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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