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IBM 4764 general documentation
IBM 4764 PCI-X Cryptographic Coprocessor Installation Manual (09/2008, 594KB)
IBM 4764 Model 001 Specification Sheet (05/2008, 466KB)
IBM 4764 PCI-X Cryptographic Coprocessor Safety Notices (11/2005, 2.40MB)
IBM 4764 PCI-X Cryptographic Coprocessor Statement of Limited Warranty (10/2008, 3.94MB)
IBM 4764 PCI-X Cryptographic Coprocessor License Agreement for Machine Code (10/2008, 1.14MB)
IBM 4764 Common Cryptographic Architecture Support Program
The CCA Basic Services and Secure Key Solution manuals describe the capabilities of the cryptographic application programming interface (API) provided with the CCA Support Program. The CCA installation manuals describe obtaining coprocessor hardware and software, loading software into the coprocessor, using the provided utility programs to manage the cryptographic node, and building applications to use with the CCA API.
Release 3.30 CCA Support Program Installation Manual for IBM 4764 on System x™ (09/2008, 1.12MB)
Release 3.30 AIX® CCA Support Program Installation Manual for IBM 4764 (04/2008, 999KB)
Release 3.25 Support Program Installation Manual for IBM 4764 on System x (05/2006, 1MB)
Release 3.24 CCA Support Program Installation Manual for IBM 4764 on System x (10/2005, 1.05MB)
The Secure Key Solution manual describes the CCA API and related information for application programs developed to use the coprocessor with Linux for System z™.
IBM 4764 custom programming
Custom Software Developer's Toolkit Guide
This book describes the tools that enable developers to build applications for the IBM 4764, authenticate programs, and load programs into the IBM 4764.
Release 3.30 Custom Software Developer's Toolkit Guide (06/2009, 1.19MB)
Custom Software Interface Reference
These manuals describe the function calls that applications running in the IBM 4764 use to obtain services from the coprocessor operating system and from the coprocessor device driver in the host system.
Release 3.30 Custom Software Interface Reference (06/2009, 1.91MB)
User Defined Extensions Reference and Guide for CCA
These manuals describe the user-defined extensions programming environment within the CCA application in the IBM 4764, the method for extending the CCA host API, and the application programming interface reference for these environments.
Release 3.30 User Defined Extensions Reference and Guide (06/2009, 2.60MB)
Interactive Code Analysis Tool (ICAT)
This manual describes the tool that developers use to debug applications running on the IBM 4764.
ICAT User's Debugger: Getting Started (06/2006, 182KB)
Research papers
Building a High-Performance, Programmable Secure Coprocessor (02/1998, 200KB) This paper describes the hardware, software, and cryptographic architecture required to build a secure coprocessor.
IBM Research also has additional papers and information pertaining to the IBM 4764 and security on their Security Research page.