Description
The article explains CP8 capabilities.
Solution
The CP8 content processor provides the following services:
- Flow-based inspection (IPS, application control etc.) pattern matching acceleration.
- High performance VPN bulk data engine.
- IPsec and SSL/TLS protocol processor.
- DES/3DES/AES in accordance with FIPS46-3/FIPS81/FIPS197.
- ARC4 in compliance with RC4.
- MD5/SHA-1/SHA256 with RFC1321 and FIPS180.
- HMAC in accordance with RFC2104/2403/2404 and FIPS198.
- Key Exchange Processor support high performance IKE and RSA computation.
- Public key exponentiation engine with hardware CRT support.
- Primarily checking for RSA key generation.
- Handshake accelerator with automatic key material generation.
- Random Number generator compliance with ANSI X9.31.
- Sub public key engine (PKCE) supports up to DH 2048 bit (group 14).
- Message authentication module offers high performance cryptographic engine for calculating SHA256/SHA1/MD5 of data up to 4G bytes (used by many applications)
- PCI express Gen 2 four lanes interface.
- Cascade Interface for chip expansion.
