Learn about the specifications for the cryptographic Accelerator.
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:
You install the cryptographic accelerator in a PCI card slot.
The following items are requirements and specifications for this adapter.
If you are installing a new feature, ensure that you have the software required to support the new feature and that you determine if there are any existing prerequisites. To do this, use the IBM® Prerequisite Web site at http://www-912.ibm.com/e_dir/eServerPrereq.nsf .