TeraFire^® CAL

Cryptographic Application Library

The TeraFire Cryptographic Application Library (CAL) complements Athena’s extensive family of cryptographic hardware accelerators by providing both a comprehensive library of software implementations of cryptographic algorithms and the drivers for TeraFire hardware accelerators. This allows you to choose the best combination of software and hardware implementations for your current product, and protects your investment for your next application

The TeraFire CAL is a portable library that provides a standard API to access the performance and power advantages provided by TeraFire cryptographic cores, and also provides software implementations of standard algorithms that do not need hardware acceleration for your application. The TeraFire CAL is implemented in ANSI C, and is portable to virtually any application environment, and may even be used for hostbased development to jumpstart your software development efforts.

Features

• Portable ANSI C implementation
• Software cryptography algorithm implementations
• TeraFire hardware cryptographic accelerator drivers
• Sophisticated configuration management

Benefits

• Processor and operating system portable
• Unified code base for target hardware and software-based development systems

Applications

• Encrypted data storage
• Secure communications
• Secure processing
• IPsec acceleration
• E-commerce
• SSL VPN
• Mobile platforms