I agree, I'm not aware of a particular generation of crypto cards running at different "speeds". They can be configured as either a "accelerator" or "coprocessor" and if the latter, either as a CCA (FIPS 140-2 certification) or Enterprise PKCS (PKCS certification). Those decisions do make an impact on performance (accelerator mode limits the operations, but does result in faster SSL acceleration), but asking for the "speed" seems like a weird way of asking for how the card is configured.
But maybe in certain failure modes it degrades the processing speed instead of taking the card out entirely? IDK, but I suppose that might be possible. If so, where you see that I have no idea. Scott Chapman On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:02:29 -0500, Paul Feller <[email protected]> wrote: >Yes, there is a PCHPID assigned to the crypto features. I've never seen any >place any indication of a "speed" for the crypto feature. The crypto feature >is not like say a FICON feature. With FICON you can see what speed the >channel has negotiated with the device at the other end. So from my point of >view I'm not sure why the IBM engineer would be asking about the speed of the >crypto feature. > > >Paul > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of >Peter >Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2024 10:23 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Crypto card speed > >Hello > >One of the Crypto pchipid generated a auto dial to IBM engineer and he wanted >to confirm it PCHPID was functioning and wanted to know what is its current >speed of crypto from the support elements advanced facilities > >I tried all options but I couldn't see anything closer to bandwidth or speed. > >On Mon, 21 Oct 2024, 06:49 Eric Rossman, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> How would you measure the speed? >> >> Operations/second (if so, what kind of operations, key size, etc?) >> >> There are a number of possible answers to your question, depending on >> what exactly you are looking for. >> >> Eric Rossman >> --------------------------------- >> ICSF Security Architect >> z/OS Security >> --------------------------------- >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On >> Behalf Of Peter >> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2024 10:34 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Crypto card speed >> >> Eric >> I meant is there a way to know the speed of Crypro in general not >> current >> >> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024, 06:19 Eric Rossman, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > What exactly do you mean by "the current speed"? >> > >> > Eric Rossman >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send >> email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to >[email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
