SSL Acceleration
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SSL acceleration is a method of offloading the processor-intensive public key encryption algorithms involved in SSL transactions to a hardware accelerator. Typically, this is a separate card that plugs into a PCI slot in a computer that contains a co-processor able to handle much of the SSL processing.
Vendors Providing SSL Accelerators
In alphabetical order:- [ActivNetworks]
- Array Networks
- [Citrix Systems, Inc]
- [Coyote Point Systems Inc]
- F5 Networks
- [HP/Atalla]
- [IBM CryptoCards]
- [KEMP Technologies, Inc]
- [nCipher Inc]
- [Netronome Systems, Inc.]
- Nortel Networks
- Radware ([AppXcel])
- [Redline Networks, Inc.]
- Sun Microsystems
- [Zeus Technology.]
External links
- [Overview of SSL Acceleration Implementations]
- [SSL Acceleration and Offloading: What Are the Security Implications?]
See also
- Co-Processor
- Public-key cryptography
- SSL
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