open-source crypto accelerator

this is a report on the work i have done recently on improving crypto (encryption and hashing) performance mostly for use by ipsec(4). we describe several step of implementation involved starting with symmetric multiprocessing followed by an assymetric multiprocessing approach and to low-level implementation in FPGA (work in progress). statistical measurements of basic AES+SHA1 performance provided to demonstrate the improvement. all the sources are publicly available under free license.