SHAMROCK: A Synthesizable High Assurance Cryptography and Key management coprocessor
David J Whelihan, Michael Vai, Dan Utin, Roger I. Khazan, Karen Gettings, Anderson Tom, Godfrey Antonio, Govotski Raymond, Mark Yeager, B. Chetwynd, Ben Nahill, Eric A. Koziel · 2016
For performance, maintainability and usability, military communications systems must properly integrate and coordinate cryptographic primitives and use adequate key management schemes. In this paper, we present a SHAMROCK (Synthesizable High Assurance Management/Reservation/Operation of Cryptography and Keys) coprocessor. Being self-contained and synthesizable, SHAMROCK empowers designers to readily and correctly incorporate cryptography and key management into embedded systems. SHAMROCK has been incorporated in multiple mission critical systems to enable secure computing and communications.