A Case for SmartNIC-accelerated Private Communication
Duckwoo Kim, SeungEon Lee, KyoungSoo Park · 2020
Transport Layer Security (TLS) has become a key building block for private network communication in modern Internet. While recent advancement of CPU has substantially improved the data encryption performance, TLS key exchange still remains the bottleneck for short-lived transactions. Dedicated hardware crypto accelerators promise good performance, but they often require invasive modification of the application due to its inherent architecture of asynchronous processing.