Specifications

Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Oracle Solaris Porting Guide

TABLE 7-1. API AND IMPLEMENTATION DIFFERENCES

RHEL ORACLE SOLARIS 11

Blowfish

Arcfour or RC4

Table 7-2 shows the differences in names and locations of header files.

TABLE 7-2. DIFFERENCES IN HEADER FILES

RHEL ORACLE SOLARIS 11

MD4

#include <openssl/md4.h> #include <md4.h>

MD5

#include <openssl/md5.h>

#include <md5.h>

SHA1

#include <openssl/sha.h> #include <sha1.h>

Using Hardware Accelerators and System-Provided Interfaces

The SPARC T4 processor from Oracle is designed with security as a focus and has crypto instruction

accelerators integrated directly into each processor core. Integrating encryption capabilities directly

inside the instruction pipeline of the processor eliminates the performance and cost barriers associated

with secure computing.

The Oracle Solaris cryptographic framework can fully leverage hardware-assisted cryptographic

acceleration provided by Oracle’s SPARC T-Series processors as well as other third-party PKCS#11-

based hardware security modules transparently. This and the following are examples of benefits

provided by the integrated hardware and software stack provided by Oracle:

On Oracle Solaris 11, both Java and non-Java applications can delegate SSL/TLS and WS-Security

tasks involved with compute-intensive public key encryption, bulk encryption, and digest operations to

hardware via a Java PKCS#11 provider.

• The Oracle Solaris OpenSSL pkcs11 engine will automatically leverage hardware-assisted

cryptographic acceleration support provided by SPARC T-Series processors and Intel Westmere

(AES-NI) processors.