IPsec and IKE Administration Guide

IKE and Hardware Acceleration

IKE algorithms are computationally expensive, particularly in the Phase 1 exchange. Systems that handle a large number of exchanges can use a Sun Crypto Accelerator 1000 card to handle the public key operations. For information on how to configure IKE to offload its computations to the accelerator card, see How to Use the Sun Crypto Accelerator 1000 Card With IKE.