Cryptographic accelerator (FC 4960; CCIN 2058)

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:

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.

Note: This adapter does not incorporate a microprocessor subsystem (CPU, DRAM, Flash), a secure programming environment, nor tamper detection and response functions.

Figure 1. Feature 4960

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 system-specific adapter placement information, see PCI placement in the system unit or expansion unit in the PCI adapter topic