Intel® Cryptography Primitives Library System Requirements

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Updated 10/30/2024
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Intel® Cryptography Primitives Library System Requirements 

Introduction 

This document provides details about hardware and software requirements for: 

  • Intel® Cryptography Primitives Library 

Supported Hardware Platforms 

  • Intel® Core™ Processor Family  

  • Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors 

  • Intel® Xeon® Processor Family  

  • Intel Atom® Processors 

Supported Operating Systems 

 Windows* 

  • Windows* 10, 11 

  • Windows Server* 2019, 2022 

  • Use of Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX) and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel® AVX2) instructions require Microsoft Windows* 10 and Windows Server* 2016, or a higher version. 

  • Use of Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) instructions require Microsoft Windows Server* 2016, or a higher version. 

Linux* 

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)* 8, 9  

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server* (SLES) 15 SP4, SP5, SP6 

  • Ubuntu* 22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS 

  • Rocky Linux 9 

  • Fedora* 39, 40 

  • Debian* 12 

  • Use of Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX) and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel® AVX2) instructions require Linux kernels from 2.6.30 and later. 

  • Use of Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) instructions require Linux kernels from 3.15 and later. 

Note: Intel® Cryptography Primitives Library is expected to work on many more Linux distributions as well. Let us know (Intel Cryptography github) if you have trouble with the distribution you use. 

Supported Compilers 

Linux* 

  • Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler 2023.1 for Linux* OS and later 

  • GNU Compilers 8.x and higher 

  • Glibc version 2.28 or higher 

Windows* 

  • Intel® DPC++/C++ Compiler 2023.1 and later 

  • Microsoft Visual Studio* 2019  

  • Microsoft Visual Studio* 2022  

Deprecation Notices 

The following Operating System support is now deprecated and will be discontinued with the oneAPI 2026.0 release in Fall 2025. 

  • Windows* 10
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) version 15 SP4 
  • Fedora* 39

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