ASIC--security processor.SonicWALL Inc., have a new high performance security processor, the custom Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. ) which will be incorporated into SonicWALL's Interact security appliances to create a hardware platform for integrating firewall, VPN and a range of other security services. The SonicWALLL ASIC accelerates Triple Data Encryption Standard See DES. Data Encryption Standard - (DES) The NBS's popular, standard encryption algorithm. It is a product cipher that operates on 64-bit blocks of data, using a 56-bit key. It is defined in FIPS 46-1 (1988) (which supersedes FIPS 46 (1977)). (3DES) VPN throughput to a maximum speed of 45 Mbps by offloading encryption processing from the SonicWALL Internet security appliance's central processing unit See CPU. (architecture, processor) central processing unit - (CPU, processor) The part of a computer which controls all the other parts. Designs vary widely but the CPU generally consists of the control unit, the arithmetic and logic unit (ALU), registers, temporary buffers . Removing the burden of encryption processing frees the CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. for other purposes, including the processing of additional security services such as Network Anti-Virus, Content Filtering and strong authentication using digital certificates and a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). www.sonicwall.com |
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