This reminds me of something I've wondered.  Are they any non-IBM products that 
support the Common Cryptographic Architecture?



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> From: Todd Arnold <[email protected]>
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>IBM had three channel-attached crypto units for the mainframes.
>
>1977 – IBM 3845 DES encryption unit
>
>1979 – IBM 3848 DES encryption unit - faster than the 3845, and added 
>Triple-DES
>   (yes, IBM already had Triple-DES in its products in 1979!)
>
>1989 – IBM Transaction Security System (TSS) which included the 4753.  The 
>4753 was the first product to offer the CCA architecture, and it is the 
>ancestor of all of the other crypto processors such as the Crypto Express 
>cards.
>
>Todd Arnold
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