SPARC: Hardware Accelerated Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC) Support

This security enhancement is new in the Developer 1/08 release.

The UltraSPARC-T2 based platforms support hardware acceleration of Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC) algorithms. The Solaris OS now supports high performance ECDSA and ECDH on these platforms. These new ECC algorithms are accessible to all users of the Solaris Cryptographic Framework including JAVA and OpenSSL users.