EXPERIMENTS WITH THE USE OF GPU DEVICES AS CRYPTOGRAPHIC ACCELERATORS
Boris Damjanović
FSOM – Univerzitet Union – Nikola Tesla
Keywords:
parallelisation, GPU, security and protection, data encryption
Abstract
Modern cryptography today relies largely on processing power of GPU devices. Blockchain technology and methods of mining for a large number of crypto valutes can no longer be imagined without the enormous process power of these devices. However, GPU devices that are used for mining are much more powerful than those that are built into devices that belong to the consumer electronics segment, such as laptops and desktop computers of the middle or lower price range. This paper presents the idea of using low-cost GPU units as cryptographic accelerators that are able to greatly accelerate the parallel execution of the AES algorithm.
