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Programming highly parallel reconfigurable architectures for symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic applications
Tiled architectures are emerging as an architectural
platform that allows high levels of instruction
level parallelism. Traditional compiler parallelization techniques
are usually employed to generate programs for these
architectures. However, for specific application domains,
the compiler is not able to effectively exploit the domain
knowledge. In this paper, we propose a new programming
model that, by means of the definition of software function
units, allows domain-specific features to be explicitly
modeled, achieving good performances while reducing development
times with respect to low-level programming.
Identity-based cryptographic algorithms are known to be
computationally intensive and difficult to parallelize automatically.
Recent advances have led to the adoption of
embedded cryptographic coprocessors to speed up both
traditional and identity-based public key algorithms. We
show the effectiveness of the proposed programming model
by applying it to the case of computationally intensive
cryptographic algorithms in both identity-based and traditional
algorithms. Custom-designed coprocessors have high
development costs and times with respect to general purpose
or DSP coprocessors. Therefore, the proposed methodology
can be effectively employed to reduce time to market while
preserving performances. It also represents a starting point
for the definition of cryptography-oriented programming
languages. We prove that tiled architecture well compare
w.r.t. competitors implementations such as StrongARM and
FPGAs
Programming Highly Parallel Reconfigurable Architectures for Symmetric and Asymmetric Cryptographic Applications
Abstract — Tiled architectures are emerging as an architectural platform that allows high levels of instruction level parallelism. Traditional compiler parallelization techniques are usually employed to generate programs for these architectures. However, for specific application domains, the compiler is not able to effectively exploit the domain knowledge. In this paper, we propose a new programming model that, by means of the definition of software function units, allows domain-specific features to be explicitly modeled, achieving good performances while reducing development times with respect to low-level programming. Identity-based cryptographic algorithms are known to be computationally intensive and difficult to parallelize automatically. Recent advances have led to the adoption of embedded cryptographic coprocessors to speed up both traditional and identity-based public key algorithms. We show the effectiveness of the proposed programming model by applying it to the case of computationally intensive cryptographic algorithms in both identity-based and traditional algorithms. Custom-designed coprocessors have high development costs and times with respect to general purpose or DSP coprocessors. Therefore, the proposed methodology can be effectively employed to reduce time to market while preserving performances. It also represents a starting point for the definition of cryptography-oriented programming languages. We prove that tiled architecture well compare w.r.t. competitors implementations such as StrongARM and FPGAs