Publication detail

Hardware-Accelerated Cryptography for Software-Defined Networks

CÍBIK P.

Original Title

Hardware-Accelerated Cryptography for Software-Defined Networks

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

This paper presents a Software-Defined Network (SDN) cryptographic solution targeted on high-speed smart Network Interface Cards (NICs) with an FPGA chip. This solution provides a fast alternative method to develop network-oriented data processing cryptography applications for an accelerator. A high-level programming language - Programming Protocol-independent Packet Processor (P4) - is used to avoid a complex and time-consuming hardware development. The solution consists of two main parts: a library of mainly used cryptographic primitives written in VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) i.e. a symmetric cipher (AES-GCM-256), a hash function (SHA-3), a SHA-3-based Hash-based Message Authentication Code (HMAC), a digital signature scheme (EdDSA) and a post-quantum digital signature scheme (Dilithium), and a compiler P4/VHDL with the support for these cryptographic components as external objects of P4_16.

Keywords

Cryptography, Hardware acceleration, FPGA, VHDL, Software-Defined Networks, P4

Authors

CÍBIK P.

Released

27. 4. 2021

Publisher

Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication

Location

Brno

ISBN

978-80-214-5943-4

Book

Proceedings of the 27th Conference STUDENT EEICT 2021 selected papers

Edition

1

Pages from

126

Pages to

130

Pages count

5

URL

https://www.fekt.vut.cz/conf/EEICT/archiv/sborniky/EEICT_2021_sbornik_2.pdf

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT171913,
  author="Peter {Cíbik}",
  title="Hardware-Accelerated Cryptography for Software-Defined Networks",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 27th Conference STUDENT EEICT 2021 selected papers",
  year="2021",
  series="1",
  pages="126--130",
  publisher="Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication",
  address="Brno",
  doi="10.13164/eeict.2021.126",
  isbn="978-80-214-5943-4",
  url="https://www.fekt.vut.cz/conf/EEICT/archiv/sborniky/EEICT_2021_sbornik_2.pdf"
}