Setting up secure connections with Cryptography offloaded to your SoC FPGA

In this white paper, we’ll explain the benefits of offloading cryptography routines to hardware. As an example platform, we consider the Cyclone® V SoC device, an Intel® FPGA. Key here is selecting the right IP blocks and installing the appropriate Linux drivers that drive the hardware and allow for an easy integration in your application. Next to being more secure, hardware cryptography is also much faster which is vital in today’s high performance and throughput applications like blockchain applications and high performance networking. A comparison of hardware and software security routines on the Cyclone V SoC shows a gain of 30X for typical Ethernet packets of 1.5 Kbytes.