Hardware Acceleration and FIPS 140-2 Performance

For best performance, consumers of FIPS 140-2 providers should use hardware-accelerated cryptography where possible. The Cryptographic Framework runs with hardware acceleration in FIPS 140-2 mode on the systems listed in Oracle Solaris System Hardware Validated for FIPS 140-2.

For more information, see SPARC Acceleration of Optimized Cryptographic Functions in Managing Encryption and Certificates in Oracle Solaris 11.4. For an example, see Example of Running in FIPS 140-2 Mode on an Oracle Solaris 11.4 System.