Kirk Wolf wrote:
>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.

HMAC? Or just SHA digests? I don't think CPACF does HMAC.

Note that HMAC-SHA-256 is a MAC (keyed hash) function, while SHA-256 is an 
unkeyed message digest. HMAC-SHA-256 uses SHA-256 internally as a primitive.

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