The IBM PKCS11 Impl provider uses the Java™ Cryptography Extension (JCE) and Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) frameworks to seamlessly add the capability to use hardware cryptography using the PKCS#11 Cryptographic Token Interface standard.
This provider takes advantage of hardware cryptography within the existing JCE architecture and gives Java programmers significant security and performance advantages of hardware cryptography with minimal changes to existing Java applications. Because the complexities of hardware cryptography are taken care of within the normal JCE, advanced security and performance using hardware cryptographic devices is made easily available.