Overview of the Cryptographic Framework

The Cryptographic Framework is the portion of the Oracle Solaris OS thatprovides cryptographic services from Oracle Corporation andfrom third-party suppliers. The framework provides various services:

• Message encryption and message digest

• Message authentication codes (MACs)

• Digital signing

• Application programmer interfaces (APIs) for accessing cryptographicservices

• Service provider interfaces (SPIs) for providing cryptographicservices

• An administration command for managing cryptographic resources

Overview of the Oracle Solaris Cryptographic Framework provides an overview of the Cryptographic Framework.The light gray shading in the figure indicates the user-level portion of theCryptographic Framework. The dark gray shading represents the kernel-level portion of the framework.

Figure 14  Overview of the Oracle Solaris Cryptographic Framework