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della
Svizzera
italiana
High-level Architecture of an IPSec-dedicated System on Chip
Additional information
Authors
Ferrante A.,
Piuri V.
Type
Article in conference proceedings
Year
2007
Language
English
Abstract
IPSec is a suite of protocols which adds security to communications at the IP level. Protocols within the IPSec suite make extensive use of cryptographic algorithms. Since these algorithms are computationally very intensive, some hardware acceleration is needed to support high throughput. In this paper we propose a high level architecture of a System on Chip (SoC) which implements IPSec. This SoC has been thought to be placed on the main data path of the host machine (flow-through architecture), thus allowing for transparent processing of IPSec traffic. The functionalities of the different blocks and their interactions, along with an estimation of the internal memory size, are also shown.
Conference proceedings
proceedings of NGI 2007
Month
May
Publisher
IEEE Press
Meeting place
Trondheim, Norway
Keywords
accelerator, IPSec, priority, quality of service (QoS), security, system-on-chip (SoC), SystemC
