module

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-002736",
  "term": "module",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "1. Program unit that is discrete and identifiable with respect to compiling, combining with other units, and loading.\n\n2. Discrete and identifiable element with a well-defined interface and well-defined purpose or role whose effect is described as relations among inputs, outputs, and retained state.\n\n3. The set of hardware, software, and/or firmware that implements security functions (including cryptographic algorithms and key generation) and is contained within a cryptographic module boundary. See [FIPS 140].\n\n4. See Cryptographic module.\n\n5. The set of hardware, software, and/or firmware that implements approved security functions (including cryptographic algorithms and key generation) and is contained within a cryptographic boundary.\n\n6. The set of hardware, software, and/or firmware that implements approved cryptographic functions (including key generation) that are contained within the cryptographic boundary of the module.\n\n7. The set of hardware, software, and/or firmware that implements approved security functions (including cryptographic algorithms and key generation) and is contained within the cryptographic boundary.\n\n8. The set of hardware, software, and/or firmware that implements security functions (including cryptographic algorithms and key generation) and is contained within a cryptographic module boundary. See FIPS 140.\n\n9. See Cryptographic module\n\n10. The set of hardware, software, and/or firmware that implements security functions (including cryptographic algorithms), holds plaintext keys and uses them for performing cryptographic operations, and is contained within a cryptographic module boundary. This Profile requires the use of a validated cryptographic module as specified in [FIPS 140].\n\n11. The set of hardware, software, and/or firmware that implements approved security functions and is contained within a cryptographic boundary.\n\n12. The set of hardware, software, and/or firmware that implements security functions (including cryptographic algorithms and keygeneration methods) and is contained within a cryptographic module boundary. See FIPS 140.\n\n13. an embedded software component of a product or application, or a complete product in-and-of-itself that has one or more capabilities.",
  "synonyms": [
    "Cryptographic module"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-160v1r1",
    "NIST SP 800-160v1r1 from ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2017",
    "NIST SP 800-133 [Superseded]",
    "NIST SP 800-133 [Superseded]; NIST SP 800-133 Rev. 2",
    "NIST SP 800-57 Part 1 Rev. 4 [Superseded]; NIST SP 800-175B Rev. 1",
    "NIST SP 800-57 Part 2 Rev.1",
    "NIST SP 800-57 Part 2 [Superseded]; NIST SP 800-57 Part 1 Rev. 3 [Superseded]",
    "NIST SP 800-133 Rev.1 [Superseded]",
    "NIST SP 800-152",
    "NIST SP 800-57 Part 1 Rev. 5",
    "NIST SP 800-133 Rev. 2",
    "NISTIR 7511 Rev. 4",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/module/"
}