<s>
In	O
computing	O
,	O
a	O
cryptographic	B-General_Concept
accelerator	I-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
co-processor	B-General_Concept
designed	O
specifically	O
to	O
perform	O
computationally	O
intensive	O
cryptographic	O
operations	O
,	O
doing	O
so	O
far	O
more	O
efficiently	O
than	O
the	O
general-purpose	O
CPU	B-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
Intel	O
's	O
AES-NI	O
is	O
by	O
far	O
the	O
most	O
common	O
cryptographic	B-General_Concept
accelerator	I-General_Concept
in	O
commodity	O
hardware	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
VIA	B-Device
PadLock	I-Device
is	O
another	O
recent	O
example	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
BSD	B-Operating_System
family	O
of	O
systems	O
has	O
the	O
OpenBSD	O
Cryptographic	O
Framework	O
(	O
OCF	O
)	O
,	O
Linux	B-Application
systems	O
have	O
the	O
Crypto	B-Application
API	I-Application
,	O
Solaris	B-Application
OS	I-Application
has	O
the	O
Solaris	B-Application
Cryptographic	O
Framework	O
(	O
SCF	O
)	O
and	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
has	O
the	O
Microsoft	O
CryptoAPI	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
cryptographic	B-General_Concept
accelerators	I-General_Concept
offer	O
new	O
machine	B-Language
instructions	I-Language
and	O
can	O
therefore	O
be	O
used	O
directly	O
by	O
programs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Libraries	O
such	O
as	O
OpenSSL	B-Language
and	O
LibreSSL	B-Language
support	O
some	O
such	O
cryptographic	B-General_Concept
accelerators	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Almost	O
all	O
Unix-like	B-Operating_System
operating	I-Operating_System
systems	I-Operating_System
use	O
OpenSSL	B-Language
or	O
the	O
fork	O
LibreSSL	B-Language
as	O
their	O
cryptography	O
library	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
libraries	O
use	O
cryptographic	B-General_Concept
accelerators	I-General_Concept
such	O
as	O
AES-NI	O
if	O
available	O
.	O
</s>
