NIST CMVP API

by Ethan Troy

Unofficial static JSON API for NIST CMVP cryptographic module data, with weekly updates, algorithm summaries, OpenAPI, and llms.txt discovery.

Official Docs

Authoritative Sources

Key guidance documents from authoritative organizations. Click to view the original source.

Community

NIST CMVP Data API Documentation

Unofficial static JSON API for CMVP validated, historical, and in-process module data. The docs expose API discovery documents, module datasets, algorithm summaries, an OpenAPI spec, and llms.txt for agent and tool consumption.

View source API Index Dataset Metadata OpenAPI Spec llms.txt

Community

NIST-CMVP-API GitHub Repository

Source repository for the scraper, generated API artifacts, and automation workflow. Use it to inspect schema generation, scheduled refreshes, validation checks, and change history.

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NIST

NIST Cryptographic Module Validation Program

Official CMVP program and certificate catalog from NIST and CCCS. Use the NIST site as the authoritative source for validation status, certificate details, and security policy documents; the API linked here is a convenience layer, not an official NIST service.

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Open Source Tools

Community and open-source tools for NIST CMVP API.

ethanolivertroy/NIST-CMVP-API

Python

Verification Commands

Commands and queries for testing and verifying security configurations.

Discovery

2 commands

Fetch the API index to discover all published datasets CLI

curl -s https://ethanolivertroy.github.io/NIST-CMVP-API/api/index.json | jq

Check dataset freshness and feature flags CLI

curl -s https://ethanolivertroy.github.io/NIST-CMVP-API/api/metadata.json | jq

Module Queries

4 commands

List active validated modules for a vendor CLI

curl -s https://ethanolivertroy.github.io/NIST-CMVP-API/api/modules.json | jq '.modules[] | select(."Vendor Name" | test("Microsoft"; "i"))'

Search validated modules by certificate number CLI

curl -s https://ethanolivertroy.github.io/NIST-CMVP-API/api/modules.json | jq '.modules[] | select(."Certificate Number" == "5104")'

Inspect historical or revoked modules CLI

curl -s https://ethanolivertroy.github.io/NIST-CMVP-API/api/historical-modules.json | jq '.modules[] | select(.status == "Revoked")'

List modules currently in process CLI

curl -s https://ethanolivertroy.github.io/NIST-CMVP-API/api/modules-in-process.json | jq '.modules[:20]'

Algorithm Queries

2 commands

Inspect algorithm usage statistics across certificates CLI

curl -s https://ethanolivertroy.github.io/NIST-CMVP-API/api/algorithms.json | jq

Look up certificates that reference AES CLI

curl -s https://ethanolivertroy.github.io/NIST-CMVP-API/api/algorithms.json | jq '.algorithms.AES'

Related Controls

Security controls from various frameworks that relate to NIST CMVP API.

NIST SP 800-53 2 controls

SC-12 SC-13

FedRAMP Rev 5 2 controls

SC-12 SC-13

NIST SP 800-171 1 control

3.13.11