Flags controlling the algorithms services are located in Available services group. The use of services significantly expands the functionality of hardware algorithms.
The services allow for:
- Setting the algorithm status (active/inactive) and its further control from within the application or using the remote update feature
- Accessing the algorithm descriptor contents and updating it without affecting (overwriting) the remaining memory (compare to hardware locks ideology).
Such possibilities became available thanks to protected items technology with hardware algorithms being a special case of such technology.