02-10-2009
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I found some useful information in the BEGINNERS GUIDE TO LDOMS documents (I should have searched here in the first place!):
"The cryptographic devices on the supported platforms, referred to as modular arithmetic units (MAUs), provide high-performance, dedicated cryptographic engines to perform RSA and DSA operations. These can be used for tasks such as encrypting and decrypting network traffic that could occur between a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) web server and an application server.
In Logical Domains software, the cryptographic devices are also virtualized. There are eight MAU units on eight-core platforms with one per core of four virtual CPUs. As they are part of a core, they can be bound only to a domain that contains at least one strand from the parent core. (More information on this is provided in the chapter on “Guidelines and Gotchas.”)"