Right

Some examples:

- The HMAC and Cipher calls that are better on CPACF than card anyway
- With the latest (A0) level of ICSF, the Unix /dev/random and /dev/urandom
devices will work if ICSF is started, and no longer require a co-processor
card

Both of these examples will significantly improve the performance of IBM
Ported Tools OpenSSH on z/OS.

Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Mark Jacobs <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 09/19/13 10:48, John Chase wrote:
>
>> Hi, List,
>>
>> On z/OS 1.13:
>>
>> Q1:  Is there anything to be gained, running ICSF without any
>> cryptographic coprocessors installed?
>>
>> Q2:  Is anything "lost" by NOT running ICSF without cryptographic
>> coprocessors installed?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>>      -jc-
>>
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>>
> Any of the ICSF API's that require the card will fail. Those that are
> implemented in the processor will work.
>
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