Accelerating encryption using commodity hardware
Automatic Control and Computers Faculty, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independent, ei nr. 313, Bucharest, Romania
University Politehnica of Bucharest, 2013
Dedicated hardware encryption offers both low latency and high throughput at the expense of higher cost. A system that would encompass several architectures (SISD/SIMD) with a high number of memory hierarchies might be able to perform close to a dedicated encryption unit at the fraction of the cost. This report establishes the possibility of building such a system highlighting the theoretical hardware/software limitations of it. Examples of encryption architectures are presented along with current research in using CPU/GPU configurations for encryption.
February 18, 2013 by hgpu