Proxy service through hardware acceleration using an io device

A method for enabling an in-line, transparent Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Transport Layer Security (TLS) proxy, the method being executed by a programmable input output (IO) device installed in a host device and comprising:

• establishing a session for an incoming TCP connection received from a remote host;
• processing data packets received from the remote host via a programmable P4 pipeline;
• decrypting the received data packets via a cryptographic offload subsystem;
• and
• providing the decrypted data packets to the host device.

A transparent proxy system, comprising:

• a remote host;
• a host device comprising:
• at least one central processing unit (CPU) core;
• and
• a programmable input output (IO) device comprising:
• a programmable P4 pipeline comprising a cryptographic offload subsystem;
• and
• at least one advanced reduced instruction set computer (RISC) machine (ARM) core communicably coupled to the at least one CPU core, the programmable input output (IO) device configured to execute instructions that cause the programmable IO device to perform operations enabling an in-line, transparent Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Transport Layer Security (TLS) proxy, the operations comprising:
• establishing a session for an incoming TCP connection received from the remote host via the at least one ARM core;
• processing data packets received from the remote host via the programmable P4 pipeline;
• decrypting the received data packets via the cryptographic offload subsystem;
• and
• providing the decrypted data packets to the at least one CPU core.