Survey and future trends of efficient cryptographic function implementations on GPGPUs

Authors

Adrian Boeing, Edith Cowan University

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publisher

School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia

Abstract

Many standard cryptographic functions are designed to benefit from hardware specific implementations. As a result, there have been a large number of highly efficient ASIC and FPGA hardware based implementations of standard cryptographic functions. Previously, hardware accelerated devices were only available to a limited set of users. General Purpose Graphic Processing Units (GPGPUs) have become a standard consumer item and have demonstrated orders of magnitude performance improvements for general purpose computation, including cryptographic functions. This paper reviews the current and future trends in GPU technology, and examines its potential impact on current cryptographic practices.

Comments

6th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia, December 3rd 2008.

DOI

10.4225/75/57b26b3a40cb8