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------- Comment From patrick.steuer at de.ibm.com 2018-02-27 08:54 EDT-------
testing of the 1.0.2 backports is complete.

openssl-ibmca is not needed/completely independent of this patch set.

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Title:
  [18.04 FEAT] Add support for CPACF enhancements to openssl

Status in Ubuntu on IBM z Systems:
  Fix Committed
Status in openssl package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Add support for CPACF enhancements to openssl
  	
  Support new CPACF instructions to accelerate the GCM mode of operation as available with IBM z14 and later hardware
  This feature implements the instruction support in openssl !

  A prereq within IBMCA is already available with ibmca 1.4.0. Already
  requested for 17.10.

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