Cryptographic Accelerator (FC 4805, 4960; CCIN 2058)

The cryptographic accelerator provides high cryptographic performance through hardware acceleration by offloading computationally intensive public-key processing from a host processor. The overall operation control, including command decoding, is implemented in hardware.

As a result, e-business applications requiring Public Key Cryptography might experience an increase in performance. At the same time, the cryptographic accelerator releases the host processor to respond to other Internet transactions, database transactions, customer requests, and so on.

The adapter supports the following encryption and decryption functions:

• DES
• T-DES
• DES MAC
• T-DES MAC
• SHA-1
• Parallel processing of the same input data using DES and SHA
• DES to SHA
• Modular Exponentiation (with and without CRT)
• Modular Multiplication.

You install the cryptographic accelerator in a PCI card slot.

Cryptographic accelerator specifications

The following items are requirements and specifications for this adapter.

FRU part number

11P3106 (Not designed to comply with RoHS requirement.)

Power consumption

Typical, 20 watts

Voltage

+5.0 Vdc ±10 percent

Temperature

Operating, +10 to +40 degrees C (50 to 104 degrees F)

Storage, +1 to +40 degrees C (5 to 104 degrees F)

Relative humidity

8 to 80 percent

Physical dimensions

174.63 mm by 106.68 mm

Maximum number

For the maximum adapters supported, see the PCI adapter placement topic collection for your system.

For details about slot priorities and placement rules, see the PCI adapter placement topic collection for your system.

If you are installing a new feature, ensure that you have the software that is required to support the new feature and that you determine whether there are any prerequisites for this feature and attaching devices. To check for the prerequisites, see IBM® Prerequisite website .