Labeled Dave – dude: two L’s or three? – pointed me back at Larryland:
SPARC T5 Deep Dive – An interview with Oracle’s Rick Hetherington:
Q: What about the security features in the T5?
A: The team takes security very seriously. Each core on T5 has an encryption engine that will accelerate all of the most common bulk encryption ciphers like AES and DES. SPARC T5 also supports asymmetric key exchange with RSA and ECC and authentication or hash functions like SHA and MD5. We also have hardware random number generation.
With negligible overhead, customers can build an entire 3-tiered data center and never have to communicate between servers in clear text. It will all be encrypted as we go from the edge of the data center to, let’s say, the backend of the database. What we are trying to do here is provide security for customers that have avoided using full encryption within their data centers because of performance issues. With SPARC T4 and now T5, there is no real reason not to run a data center that is secure from end to end.
I seem to remember having to explain this about the T2 back in 2008 in the face of marketing material to the contrary:
Le Sigh. Skip to about the 12 minute mark for the punchline.
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