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<h1 class="topictitle1">2058 Cryptographic Accelerator</h1>
<div><p>The 2058 Cryptographic Accelerator is available for customers to
use with a V5R2 (or later) system.</p>
<p>The 2058 Cryptographic Accelerator provides a competitive option to customers
who do not require the high security of a Cryptographic Coprocessor, but
do need the high cryptographic performance that hardware acceleration provides
to offload a host processor. The 2058 Cryptographic Accelerator has been designed
to improve the performance of those SSL applications that do not require secure
key storage.</p>
<p>You can also use the 2058 Cryptographic Accelerator to offload processing
for DES, Triple DES, SHA-1, and RSA encryption methods, when using Cryptographic
Services APIs. See the <a href="../apis/catcrypt.htm">Cryptographic
Services APIs</a> for more information.</p>
<p>The 2058 Cryptographic Accelerator does not provide tamper-resistant storage
for keys, like the Cryptographic Coprocessor hardware. Depending on the model
of system you have, you can install up to a maximum of eight Cryptographic
Accelerators. You can install a maximum of four Cryptographic Accelerators
per partition.</p>
<p>The 2058 Cryptographic Accelerator provides special hardware which is optimized
for RSA encryption (modular exponentiation) with data key lengths up to 2048
bits. It also provides functions for DES, TDES, and SHA-1 encryption methods.
The 2058 Accelerator uses multiple RSA (Rivest, Shamir and Adleman algorithm)
engines.</p>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzajcfeats2058.htm">Features</a></strong><br />
Read this information to learn about the features of the 2058 Cryptographic Accelerator.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzajcssl2058.htm">Scenario: Enhance system SSL performance</a></strong><br />
In this scenario, a company orders and installs 2058 Cryptographic Accelerator is a PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) card. This card is specially designed to accelerate the very compute intensive processing required when establishing a SSL/TLS session. The scenario specifies the steps this company makes to get the card configured to enhance the SSL performance of its system.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzajcplan2058.htm">Plan for the 2058 Cryptographic Accelerator</a></strong><br />
Depending on the model of server you have, you can install up to
a maximum of eight IBM<sup>®</sup> Cryptographic Accelerators. You must ensure that
your server meets the hardware an software requirements to use the Cryptographic
Accelerator.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzajcconfig2058.htm">Configure the 2058 Cryptographic Accelerator</a></strong><br />
You must create a device description so that i5/OS™ SSL can
direct RSA cryptographic operations to the 2058 Cryptographic Accelerator.
You can create a device description by using the Create Device Description
(Crypto) (CRTDEVCRP). </li>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzajcoverview.htm" title="IBM offers cryptography solutions for customers who require a high level of security.">Cryptography</a></div>
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<div class="relinfo"><strong>Related information</strong><br />
<div><a href="http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/perfmgmt/" target="_blank">iSeries Performance</a></div>
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