UltraSPARC T2 and SCA6000 Sun crypto card

At a glance comparison

Feature 
UltraSPARC T2
Sun SCA6000 card
Symmetric ciphers RC4, DES/3DES (ECB, CBC, CFB64),  AES-(128/192/256) (ECB, CBC, CTR) DES/3DES (CBC), AES-(128/192/256) (CBC, CTR)
Secure hashes MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 MD5, SHA-1, SHA-512 (SW)
Traditional public-key RSA (up to 2048-bit), DSA, DH (up to 2048-bit) RSA (up to 2048-bit), DSA, DH (up to 2048-bit)
Elliptic curve cryptography ECDSA, ECDH (All NIST curves)
ECDSA (SW), ECDH (SW) (All NIST curves)
Hardware RNG
Yes Yes
Peak AES-128 performance 40Gb/s 1Gb/s
Peak SHA-1 performance 30Gb/s 1Gb/s
Peak RSA-1024 performance 37K private key Ops/sec
13K private key Ops/sec
API PKCS #11 (via Solaris crypto framework) PKCS #11 (via Solaris crypto framework)
Financial pin/card verification No Yes
LDOMS support Yes No
FIPS 140-2 compliant
No
Yes - Level 3
Secure keystore No - uses default Solaris SW keystore Yes - onboard HW keystore
X86 support No Yes (Solaris x86, Linux)
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