FIPS 140 certificate tracker MCP Server

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FIPS 140 certificate tracker is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 4 Sep 2026.

Every NIST FIPS 140 certificate, plus the modules-in-process queue NIST publishes only as a page.

Uptime history 20 days of history · worst day 96%

20 days agonow

95.6%

Uptime 24h

87 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

302 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 4 Sep 2026

What changed 4

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 9 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

9 Sep 3 tool descriptions were rewritten fips_cve, fips_search, fips_vendor

9 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for fips_search

FIPS 140 certificate tracker does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.4% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add fips-cmvp --transport http https://fips.808bits.com/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fips-cmvp": {
      "url": "https://fips.808bits.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.fips-cmvp]
url = "https://fips.808bits.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fips-cmvp": {
      "url": "https://fips.808bits.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fips-cmvp": {
      "url": "https://fips.808bits.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

fips

fips_cert

Look up one FIPS 140 cryptographic module validation by certificate number. Returns status (active, historical or revoked), overall level, sunset date, validation history, approved algorithms and tested configurations.

fips_cve

Which FIPS-validated modules are associated with a given CVE, or which CVEs are associated with a vendor's modules. Answers 'we have a validated module, is it caught up in this advisory'. The association is name-based against the product CPE, so read it as a pointer to check rather than a finding. An empty result means nothing matched by name, not that the module is unaffected: only 16 of the 1,183 active certificates carry any association at all, and historical ones are never scanned.

fips_in_process

Search NIST's Modules in Process queue: submissions awaiting FIPS 140-3 validation, with the review phase each one is sitting in. Use this when a vendor claims a validation is 'coming' and you need to know whether it has actually been submitted, and how far along it is.

fips_search

Search FIPS 140 validations by module name or vendor. Use this to answer whether a given product or vendor holds a current validation, and at what level. Results are ordered by status, then how well they match, then newest first, so the current validations lead.

fips_sunset

List active FIPS validations by sunset date, the day each moves to NIST's historical list and stops being valid for new procurement. Answers 'what expires before date X' and 'which vendors are about to have nothing valid'. A certificate listed here may already have a 140-3 successor: check fips_search for the same module name before reporting a gap.

fips_vendor

Everything one company holds, grouped across the spelling variants NIST filed it under. Cisco alone appears as three different strings. Returns a breakdown by status and standard plus the certificates themselves. Note this groups spellings of one registration, not corporate families: the nShield line sits under nCipher, Thales and Entrust separately, because the product changed owner. Groups large enough to have their own page on the tracker carry a tracker_url alongside the per-certificate ones.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://fips.808bits.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	416 ms	12 min ago

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FIPS 140 certificate tracker — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can FIPS 140 certificate tracker do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: fips_cert, fips_cve, fips_in_process, fips_search, fips_sunset, fips_vendor. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is FIPS 140 certificate tracker working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 87 of 91 checks got a reply (95.6%), average response time 302 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect FIPS 140 certificate tracker?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does FIPS 140 certificate tracker need an API key?

No. FIPS 140 certificate tracker completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is FIPS 140 certificate tracker?

It answers our handshake in 302 ms on average, which is faster than 58% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is FIPS 140 certificate tracker open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.