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Type 4 Product

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

Unevaluated commercial cryptographic equipment, assemblies, or components that neither NSA nor NIST certify for any government usage. These products are typically delivered as part of commercial offerings and are commensurate with the vendor’s commercial practices. These products may contain either vendor proprietary algorithms, algorithms registered by NIST, or algorithms registered by NIST and published in a FIPS.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Artifact72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

Cui68%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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