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M. Lindemann, S.W. Smith.
``Improving DES Hardware Throughput for Short Operations.''
USENIX Security Symposium, August 2001.
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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