An embedded firewall based on network processor

Author

Huang, Quan ; Qiu, Shengke ; Qin, Shicun ; Cao, Cheng

Author_Institution

Res. Inst. of Inf. Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2005

fDate

16-18 Dec. 2005

Abstract

A design of firewall system using Intel IXP425 network processor (NP) based embedded platform is proposed in this paper. Intel IXP425 network processor is a highly integrated processor. It has three network processor engines (NPEs), which offload most of the computational intensive network data operations, and one of its NPE is designed with hardware support for some of the widely used encryption algorithms and hash functions. These features make the embedded platform powerful enough to handle the network data to provide security protection. And the testing results of this embedded firewall show that the system is competent for small office/home office (SOHO) users, even for small to medium enterprise (SME) users.

Keywords

computer networks; cryptography; embedded systems; microprocessor chips; Intel IXP425 network processor; embedded firewall; encryption algorithms; firewall system design; hash functions; integrated processor; network data operations; network processor engines; security protection; small office/home office users; small to medium enterprise users; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer networks; Cryptography; Data security; Engines; Hardware; Power system protection; Power system security; Process design; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Embedded Software and Systems, 2005. Second International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2512-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICESS.2005.27

Filename

1609858