C4CS Lite and CSL software cryptographic modules
Focus Systems Corporation - FIPS 140 #914
C4CS Lite and CSL are software cryptographic modules that provide symmetric/asymmetric ciphers, hash functions, and secret sharing schemes in FIPS mode.
Key facts
- Scheme
- FIPS 140
- Certificate
- 914
- Standard
- FIPS 140-2
- Security level
- Level 2
- Status
- historical
- Status reason
- RNG SP800-131A Revision 1 Transition
- Vendor
- Focus Systems Corporation
- Module type
- Software
- Embodiment
- Multi-Chip Stand Alone
- Lab
- Leidos Accredited Testing & Evaluation (AT&E) Lab
- First validated
- February 7, 2008
- Versions
- 2.1.0 (C4CS Lite) and 2.1.0 (CSL)
- Caveat
- When operated in FIPS mode
- Level exceptions
- Design Assurance: Level 3; EMI/EMC: Level 3
Algorithms
- AES
- HMAC
- RNG
- RSA
- SHS
Algorithm families of the CAVP certificates listed for this module, plus post-quantum algorithms named in its documents.
Tested environments
- Microsoft Windows 2000 with SP3 and Q326886 Hotfix running on a Dell Optiplex GX400
Operational environments the module was tested on, as listed by NIST CMVP.
CVEs that may affect this product
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Documents and sources
Source: sec-certs.org (CRoCS, Masaryk University), from NIST CMVP, the Common Criteria Portal and ENISA (EUCC) - dataset of September 21, 2026 - synced October 17, 2026
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