IBM i and 2058 Cryptographic Function Comparison

The following table lists what cryptographic functions are available in the IBM^® i operating system and on the 2058 Cryptographic Accelerator through the cryptographic services APIs.

Function	IBM i	2058
Qc3EncryptData, Qc3DecryptData, Qc3TranslateData
DES ECB	Yes	Yes
DES CBC	Yes	Yes
DES OFB	Yes	No
DES CFB 1-bit	Yes	No
DES CFB 8-bit	Yes	No
DES CFB 64-bit	Yes	No
DES CUSP	Yes	No
TDES ECB	Yes	Yes
TDES CBC	Yes	Yes
TDES OFB	Yes	No
TDES CFB 1-bit	Yes	No
TDES CFB 8-bit	Yes	No
TDES CFB 64-bit	Yes	No
TDES CUSP	Yes	No
AES ECB	Yes	No
AES CBC	Yes	No
AES CUSP	Yes	No
AES CTR	Yes	No
RC2 ECB	Yes	No
RC2 CBC	Yes	No
RC2 CUSP	Yes	No
RC4-compatible	Yes	No
RSA	Yes	Yes1
Qc3EncryptWithMAC, Qc3DecryptWithMAC
AES CCM	Yes	No
Qc3CalculateMAC
DES	Yes	No
TDES	Yes	No
AES	Yes	No
Qc3CalculateHash, Qc3CalculateHMAC
MD5	Yes	No
SHA-1	Yes	No
SHA-256	Yes	No
SHA-384	Yes	No
SHA-512	Yes	No
Qc3CalculateSignature, Qc3VerifySignature	Yes	Yes2
Qc3GenPRNs	Yes	Yes3
Qc3GenSymmetricKey	Yes	Yes
Qc3GenPKAKeyPair	Yes	No
Qc3GenDHParms	Yes	No
Qc3GenDHKeyPair	Yes	No
Qc3CalculateDHSecretKey	Yes	Yes

¹Block formating is done in IBM i.

²Only the encryption is done on the 2058. The block formatting and hash functions are done in IBM i.

³The IBM i PRNG will automatically seed from a crypto card if one is available.

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