May 2, 2013

New performance whitepaper on exploiting System z crypto hardware with WebSphere 8 for Linux on System z

System z offers hardware accelerations for all kinds of cryptographic operations. The new whitepaper "IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 8 for Linux on IBM System z – SSL Setup and Performance Study" shows how to set up WebSphere and Linux.
The performance numbers are quite impressive, especially for RSA 4096.