Features Descriptions
*Option Part Number* 524545-B21
*Spare Part Number* Not available at this time.
*Software Support*
The HP/Atalla AXL600L SSL Accelerator Card
supports Netscape Enterprise Server 6,
Apache, and other Linux applications via
OpenSSL 0.9.5a or later.
This Accelerator Card can also be installed
on HP IA-32-based servers running Linux
distributions at kernel version 2.4.6 and
later.
*Tested Linux Distributions*
Red Hat 7.1, Red Hat 7.2, Red Hat 7.4
SuSe 7, SuSe 8
HP-lx (SE) 1.0
*Supported Servers* AXL600 - only runs and is supported on Intel
based Systems
ProLiant 8000, 8500
ProLiant DL320, 360, 360G2, 380, 580,
580G2, 760
ProLiant ML330, 330G2, 350, 350G2, 370,
370G2, 530, 530G2, 570, 570G2, 750
HP tc2100, HP tc2110
*Performance* Standard RSA with 1024-bit keys: Provides up to
600+ SSL connections per second (depending on
application)
RSA 1024-bit keys with Chinese Remainder
Theorem (CRT): Provides 700+ SSL connections
per second
*Calculated Mean Time to Greater than 800,000 hours
Failure*
Description
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Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a cryptographic protocol that protects the
digital communications between a browser and a server. SSL is the de
facto standard for Internet security today and is found in software in
hundreds of millions of browsers and hundreds of thousands of
application servers. It is a crucial element in many Internet
applications such as home banking, online trading, and consumer
e-commerce. As secure servers handle more and more SSL traffic, a
performance bottleneck occurs which can severely affect customer
satisfaction.
The SSL protocol provides a "handshake" between a browser and a server
that establishes which cryptographic algorithms will be used for that
session. This handshake requires the server to perform a compute-intense
exponentiation of a cryptographic key. Performing this exponentiation in
software, a typical secure server is severely taxed at only a handful of
SSL connections per second. The server's CPUs perform cryptographic
processing with few cycles left for business processing. A successful
application may have new customers waiting to connect to the server.
Customers may become frustrated and go elsewhere.
*Solves the performance bottleneck*
The immediate recourse to the performance bottleneck is to add another
application processor. This is expensive and may require that additional
memory be installed. The operations and management of the server will
become more complex. The preferred alternative is to offload all
exponentiation processing to a special-purpose peripheral, leaving the
general-purpose processor free to run the business application.
The HP/Atalla AXL600L SSL Accelerator Card brings the power of a
special-purpose peripheral processor to bear on the performance
bottleneck of secure applications. It meets the PCI 2.2 specification
and provides for easy installation and use. For example, a typical
secure server is saturated
running only a handful of SSL connects per second at 100 percent CPU
utilization. The AXL600L card offloads security processing overhead so
that CPU utilization devoted to exponentiation drops to near zero. For
much less than the cost of another general-purpose processor, the
AXL600L SSL Accelerator Card frees the server to run the business
application.
*Ensures that a secure server grows with the business*
As a secure application serves more customers, the AXL600L SSL
Accelerator Card continues to alleviate the performance bottleneck
caused by the compute-intense exponentiation. The AXL600L SSL
Accelerator Card can support more than 600 SSL connections per second
using 1024-bit RSA keys with today's standard web servers. The HP/Atalla
AXL600L is also enabled with Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT). The
product has been tested at more 700 SSL connections per second with CRT
for the fastest performance with CRT-enabled web servers. The HP/Atalla
AXL600L also supports MultiPrime, a patented technology from HP/Atalla
that increases the performance of public key cryptography on both server
platforms and on resource-constrained client devices such as web phones
and PDA's. As security needs continue to increase, HP/Atalla MultiPrime
provides that increasing key lengths mean little or no decline in
security server performance.
Multiple AXL600L SSL cards scale linearly and ensure that the secure
application server can grow with the needs of the business. The result
is a much more cost-effective solution to alleviate the performance
bottleneck of a secure Linux application, which in turn ensures that
customers do not leave your web site prematurely.
Features
========
Overcomes the performance bottleneck of SSL-secured Linux
applications
Accelerates SSL security processing for secure Linux application
servers
Adds a dedicated coprocessor to HP IA-32 servers, offloading
cycle-consuming exponentiation
Supports more than 600 SSL connections per second with standard
Linux servers
Enabled with Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) to improve
performance with CRT-enabled applications
Enabled with HP/Atalla MultiPrime for MultiPrime-enabled
applications such as wireless e-Commerce
Provides a much lower cost per SSL connection per second than
any product on the market
Multiple cards (up to eight) provide linear, scalable
performance
Meets PCI 2.2 specifications for fast and easy installation
Plugs directly into Linux systems at the kernel level
Easily exported worldwide
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