Sun Cryptographic Accelerator 4000
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - FIPS 140 #555
The Sun Cryptographic Accelerator 4000 (SCA 4000) is a highperformance secure networking solution for Sun servers. It is a PCI card consisting of a Gigabit Ethernet adapter with on-board cryptographic acceleration hardware and a secure cryptographic key store. The card enhances server network performance by off-loading compute intensive cryptographic calculations (asymmetric and symmetric) from the server's CPU, accelerating both IPsec and SSL processing. The SCA 4000 also provides a secure remote administration capability. It is tightly integrated with Sun's server hardware and software.
Key facts
- Scheme
- FIPS 140
- Certificate
- 555
- Standard
- FIPS 140-2
- Security level
- Level 3
- Status
- historical
- Vendor
- Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- Module type
- Hardware
- Embodiment
- Multi-Chip Embedded
- Lab
- SAIC-VA
- First validated
- July 7, 2005
- Versions
- 501-6040-02 and 501-6040-03 (Fiber), 501-6039-05 and 501-6039-06 (UTP/Copper); 2.0 and 2.0.1
- Caveat
- When operated in FIPS mode
Algorithms
- AES
- DSA
- HMAC
- RNG
- 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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Certificates it builds on
- 225
Certificate ids found in this certificate's documents (automated extraction).
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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