Architecture Design for Security Processing

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Architecture Design for Security Processing

• Yunfei Wu
• Computer Engineering
• Delft University of Technology
• June 9, 2004

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Overview

• Introduction
• Architecture issues for security processing
• Commercial processors for security processing
• Challenges
• Conclusion

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Introduction

• Security

Example
Alice
Bob
Hi, Bob
Hi, Bob
Decryption
Encryption
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Architecture issues for security processing

• Security processing computational intensive
• Implementation approaches
• GPP
• ASIC
• FPGA
• Incorporating security processing with network
  processor

1) Look aside
2) Inline
3) Integration
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Commercial Processors (1)

• Architectural comparison

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Commercial Processors (2)

• Functionality comparison

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Challenges

• Programmability and reconfigurability
• Instruction set
• Integration with network processors
• Wireless security processors
• Ability to handle thousands of simultaneous
  connections
• Security processing on multimedia data

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Summary

• General overview
• Architecture issues
• Comparisons of commercial processors
• Challenges

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Thank you!Any questions?