nShield 5s Hardware Security Module
Entrust Corporation - FIPS 140 #4745
The nShield 5s PCIe Hardware Security Module (HSM) is a multi-chip embedded hardware Cryptographic Module as defined in FIPS 140-3, which comes in a PCI express board form factor protected by a tamper resistant enclosure, and performs encryption, digital signing, and key management on behalf of an extensive range of commercial and custom-built applications including public key infrastructures (PKIs), identity management systems, application-level encryption and tokenization, SSL/TLS, and code signing.
Key facts
- Scheme
- FIPS 140
- Certificate
- 4745
- Standard
- FIPS 140-3
- Security level
- Level 3
- Status
- active
- Vendor
- Entrust Corporation
- Module type
- Hardware
- Embodiment
- Multi-Chip Embedded
- Lab
- Lightship Security, Inc.
- First validated
- July 31, 2024
- Sunset date
- July 30, 2029
- Versions
- PCA10005-01 revision 03 and 04; PCA10051-01 revision 01; primary-version 13.2.4; recovery-version 13.2.4; uboot-version 1.1.0, uboot-version 1.4.1 and uboot-version 14.2.2
- Caveat
- When installed, initialized and configured as specified in Section 11.3 of the Security Policy
Algorithms
- AES-CBC
- AES-CMAC
- AES-CTR
- AES-ECB
- AES-GCM
- AES-KW
- AES-KWP
- DSA KeyGen (FIPS186-4)
- DSA PQGGen (FIPS186-4)
- DSA PQGVer (FIPS186-4)
- DSA SigGen (FIPS186-4)
- DSA SigVer (FIPS186-4)
- ECDSA KeyGen (FIPS186-4)
- ECDSA KeyVer (FIPS186-4)
- ECDSA SigGen (FIPS186-4)
- ECDSA SigVer (FIPS186-4)
- Hash DRBG
- HMAC-SHA-1
- HMAC-SHA2-224
- HMAC-SHA2-256
- HMAC-SHA2-384
- HMAC-SHA2-512
- KAS-ECC Sp800-56Ar3
- KAS-ECC-SSC Sp800-56Ar3
- KAS-FFC Sp800-56Ar3
- KDF SP800-108
- KDF SSHA2512
- KTS-IFC
- RSA KeyGen (FIPS186-4)
- RSA SigGen (FIPS186-4)
- RSA SigVer (FIPS186-4)
- Safe Primes Key Generation
- Safe Primes Key Verification
- SHA-1
- SHA2-224
- SHA2-256
- SHA2-384
- SHA2-512
- SHA3-224
- SHA3-256
- SHA3-384
- SHA3-512
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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