Hardware-assisted security mechanism: The acceleration of cryptographic operations with low hardware cost

This paper presents generic cryptographic accelerator. Certain "hotspot function" are found in the cryptographic algorithm which consume a substantial amount of execution time of the specific algorithm. INTEL performance analyzer VTune was used which analyzes the software performance on IA-32 and Intel64-based machines to examne the hotsport function. By moving the operations to hardware, we can reduce the overheads introduced by the crypto-computation so that the computing resource can focus on the useful work.