CGX Cryptographic Module
SafeNet, Inc. - FIPS 140 #393
Based on SafeNet's 20 years of security expertise and the most widely deployed VPN software in the industry, the CGX Cryptographic Library provides a high-level software interface to SafeNet SafeXcel™ VPN acceleration chips, cards, and EmbeddedIP™ intellectual property. The CGX library can be used as an API to hardware accelerators or for compiling software implementations of the latest industry standard algorithms. Containing over forty cryptographic commands, the CGX library can provide a total security solution in either software or hardware.
Key facts
- Scheme
- FIPS 140
- Certificate
- 393
- Standard
- FIPS 140-2
- Security level
- Level 2
- Status
- historical
- Vendor
- SafeNet, Inc.
- Module type
- Software
- Embodiment
- Multi-Chip Stand Alone
- Lab
- COACT INC CAFE LAB
- First validated
- March 10, 2004
- Versions
- 3.18, 3.18.1 and 3.18.2
- Caveat
- When operated in FIPS mode
Algorithms
- AES
- DSA
- HMAC-SHA-1
- 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
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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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