Table of Contents

Overview

This chapter describes the features and functions of the Secure Content Accelerator. This chapter contains the following sections:

• Product Overview
  
  
• Released Platforms
  
  

Product Overview

The Secure Content Accelerator is a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) offloading solution, allowing servers to provide both secure and non-secure services at the same high speeds. You can secure a server immediately using a pre-loaded default key and certificate rather than wait up to a week for your key and certificate to arrive. Simply load your own certificate and key when they are available.

The Secure Content Accelerator provides:

• Compliance with the IEEE 802.3u standard
  
  
• Management via command line and Web-based graphical user interfaces
  
  
• Encrypted management session option
  
  
• User-selectable management UDP/TCP service port option
  
  
• RIP client version 1 and 2 support
  
  
• SNMP MIB-II support (read-only)
  
  
• Transparent/non-transparent SSL proxy toggling
  
  
• Non-SSL traffic blocking when operating in default in-line (dual-port) mode
  
  
• Arbitrary certificate size (up to 255 certificates)
  
  
• Netscape International Step-Up Certificate and Microsoft Server Gated Cryptography support
  
  
• Private key security
  
  
• Client and server certificate authentication
  
  
• On-device key and certificate generation
  
  
• HTTPS, SFTP, IMAPS, POP3S, NNTPS, and LDAPS as well as TLS version 1.0, and SSL version 2.0 and 3.0 support
  
  

Released Platforms

The configuration manager supports Linux Red Hat versions 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, and 7.0; Windows NT 4.0; Windows 2000; and Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8 operating systems. The CD-ROM subdirectory entitled Docs contains Adobe Acrobat .pdf versions of the product documentation and release notes.