nCipher PMC 1600 PCI
nCipher Corporation Ltd. - FIPS 140 #332
The nCipher PMC 1600 PCI secure e-Commerce SSL family of secure ecommerce accelerators are multi-tasking hardware modules that is optimized for performing modular arithmetic on very large integers. The nCipher PMC 1600 PCI may be initialized as a FIPS 140-2 level 2 embedded device. The nCipher PMC 1600 PCI improves data security and increases server throughput in applications using the Secure Sockets Layer protocol such as: secure web servers, e-commerce sites, Internet financial transactions, authenticated access to intranets and extranets and digital signatures and secure messaging.
Key facts
- Scheme
- FIPS 140
- Certificate
- 332
- Standard
- FIPS 140-2
- Security level
- Level 2
- Status
- historical
- Vendor
- nCipher Corporation Ltd.
- Module type
- Hardware
- Embodiment
- Multi-Chip Embedded
- Lab
- DOMUS
- First validated
- June 27, 2003
- Versions
- nC3033M-4K0, Build Standard A; 2.1.23-2
- Caveat
- When operated in FIPS mode and initialized to Overall Level 2 per Security Policy
Algorithms
- AES
- DSA
- HMAC-SHA-1
- RSA
- SHA-1
- Triple-DES
- Triple-DES MAC
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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