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Security '01 Abstract
Improving DES Coprocessor Throughput for Short Operations
Mark Lindemann, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center;
Sean W. Smith,
Dept. of CS/Institute for Security and Technology Studies
Abstract
Over the last several years, our research team built
a commercially-offered secure coprocessor
that, besides other features, offers high-speed DES: over 20 megabytes/second.
However, it obtains these speeds only on operations with large data lengths.
For DES operations on short data (e.g., 8-80 bytes),
our commercial offering was benchmarked at less than 2 kilobytes/second.
The programmability of our device enabled us to investigate this issue,
identify and address a series of bottlenecks that were not initially apparent,
and ultimately bring our short-DES performance close to 3 megabytes/second.
This paper reports the results of this real-world systems exercise in
hardware cryptographic acceleration---and demonstrates the importance
of, when designing specialty hardware,
not overlooking the software aspects governing how a device can be used.
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