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 system-specific adapter placement information, see the PCI adapter placement for machine types 82xx and 91xx or the PCI adapter placement for machine type 94xx topic collections.

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 .