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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsSusann Marie Keohane, Gerald Francis McBrearty, Shawn Patrick Mullen, Jessica Kelley Murillo, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh
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A method and system for allowing for the secure transmission and reception of data in a processing system is disclosed. The method and system includes providing at least one crypto algorithm in a region of a system memory in the processing system; and assigning a cryptographic function of the at least one crypto algorithm to the region. A system and method in accordance with the present invention ties the encryption/decryption algorithm to specific DMA regions and the encryption key to the particular DMA transfer. This allows the system processors to offload the encryption and enable all network (and non-network) adapters to take advantage of this offload without hardware changes to the adapters.
A method for allowing for the secure transmission and reception of data in a processing system, the method comprising the steps of:
A networking processing system comprising
A direct memory access (DMA) subsystem for a memory comprising:
A computer readable medium containing program instructions for allowing for the secure transmission and reception of data in a processing system, the program instructions:
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