Scaling of adaptive crypto services within the cloud

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium storing program code to be executed by at least one computer processing unit (CPU) in a computational environment, whereby execution of the program code causes the at least one CPU to execute a crypto cloudlet by performing operations comprising:

• providing an Applications Programming Interface (API) to a client for provisioning of cryptographic operations of said crypto cloudlet;
• securing execution of crypto services in the computational environment via execution of a security wrapper shell of the crypto cloudlet by way of the API, the security wrapper shell configured to securely execute cryptographic operations within a virtual machine;
• dynamically adjusting, via at least the security wrapper shell, hardware resources including CPU cores, co-processors and cryptographic accelerators and sensors available to the virtual machine to optimize execution of said cryptographic operations;
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• executing an adaptive service of the crypto cloudlet, the adaptive service comprising a set of modules configured to fulfill cryptographic demands of a client by identifying and metering processing speed, performance, scalability and loading of said hardware resources allocated to the crypto cloudlet to support said cryptographic operations to fulfill cryptographic demands of the client.

A method by a hardware server for executing a crypto cloudlet, the method comprising:

• providing an Applications Programming Interface (API) to a client for provisioning of cryptographic services within a computational environment;
• securing execution of said cryptographic services by way of said API through a security wrapper shell configured to securely execute cryptographic operations within at least one virtual machine of said computational environment;
• dynamically adjusting, via at least the security wrapper shell, hardware resources including CPU cores, co-processors and cryptographic accelerators and sensors available to said at least one virtual machine to optimize execution of said cryptographic operations;
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• executing an adaptive service comprising a set of modules, to process cryptographic demands of the client, by identifying and metering processing speed, performance, scalability and loading of said hardware resources allocated to the crypto cloudlet to process said cryptographic operations.