The SAP Cryptographic Library
The SAP cryptographic library is used to encrypt and authenticate connections between two software applications and is one of two standard reference implementations of GSS-API for Secure Network Communications (SNC) provided by SAP.
The library is available for a range of platforms and is available free-of-charge to SAP customers for securing server-to-server connections. Those software applications can be any SAP RFC library client or server, and even wider anything using the SAP network protocol.
The SAP cryptographic library is based on SSL, and thus uses public key cryptography to guarantee security. As it is based on SSL, it is also able to provide a direct SSL API as well as the GSS-API. Furthermore it provides a SSF interface. Both the SSL and SSF API are not discussed here.
Downloading the SAP Cryptographic library
The "SAP Cryptographic Library" (SAPCRYPTOLIB) is available on the SAP Launchpad for software download.