Crypto Information for UltraSPARC T2, Sun Fire T2000

UltraSPARC T2 Hardware Cryptographic Accelerators

In Lawrence Spracklen's blog, find out more information on the three drivers that can be used to access the UltraSPARC T2 hardware cryptographic features. The drivers are:

ncp: similar to the UltraSPARC T1; handles RSA, DSA, DH and ECC

n2cp: handles bulk ciphers and hashes
n2rng: access to the HW random number generator

For more detailed information on the UltraSPARC T2 cryptographic accelerators, see the PDF UltraSPARC T2 Supplement to the UltraSPARC Architecture 2007.

Built-in Hardware Accelerators of Sun Fire T2000 (Niagara 1) Server

Meena Vyas details the steps in using the built-in hardware accelerators of the Sun Fire T2000 Server with SSL-enabled Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 U2 instance. [...read more...]

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Other articles in the Hardware section of Volume 116, Issue 1:

Sun Offering ClearSpeed's Advance Accelerator Boards
Using Performance Counters on UltraSPARC T1 and T2 Processors
Crypto Information for UltraSPARC T2, Sun Fire T2000 (this article)

See all archived articles in the Hardware section.

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