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Introducing Intel® Cryptography Primitives Library
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Use Intel® Cryptography Primitives Library
to improve performance of cryptographic operations in multimedia,
enterprise data, embedded, communications, and scientific/technical
applications. The primitives are a common interface for thousands of
commonly used algorithms. Using these primitives enables you to
automatically tune your application to many generations of processors
without changes in your application.


Intel® Cryptography Primitives Library provides high performance implementations
of cryptographic functions for several hardware/instruction set
generations. Code written with Intel® Cryptography Primitives Library automatically
takes advantage of available CPU capabilities. This can provide
tremendous development and maintenance savings. You can write programs
with one optimized execution path, avoiding the alternative of multiple
paths (Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (Intel® SSE2),
Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSSE3), Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX), etc.)
to achieve optimal performance across multiple generations of processors.


The goal of the Intel® Cryptography Primitives Library software is to provide
algorithmic building blocks with


- a simple "primitive" C interface and data structures to enhance usability and portability
- faster time-to-market
- scalability with hardware based on Intel® architecture


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   * - Product and Performance Information
   * - Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at `www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex <https://www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex>`_.

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