VMware's BoringCrypto Module
VMware, Inc. - FIPS 140 #3846
VMware’s BoringCrypto Module is a versatile software library that implements FIPS 140-2 Approved cryptographic services for VMware products and platforms.
Key facts
- Scheme
- FIPS 140
- Certificate
- 3846
- Standard
- FIPS 140-2
- Security level
- Level 1
- Status
- historical
- Vendor
- VMware, Inc.
- Module type
- Software
- Embodiment
- Multi-Chip Stand Alone
- Lab
- Acumen Security
- First validated
- March 13, 2021
- Versions
- 1.0
- Caveat
- When installed, initialized and configured as specified in Section 3.1 of the Security Policy and operated in FIPS mode. The module generates cryptographic keys whose strengths are modified by available entropy
Algorithms
- AES
- CVL
- DRBG
- ECDSA
- HMAC
- 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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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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