Research on the Efficiency of the “Grasshopper” Cipher in Authenticated Encryption Mode, Applied to the Acceleration of IPsec

Student: Dikov Nikolay

Faculty: HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM HSE)

Educational Programme: Cybersecurity (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2024

This research proposes to study how the tasks of processing ESP packets can be delegated to NVIDIA GPUs. ESP packets are part of the IPsec protocol group and are responsible for encrypting and authenticating transmitted data. To implement this task, CUDA will be used, a parallel computing technology from NVIDIA, which can improve the performance of computing operations through the use of graphics processor resources. The purpose of this work is to study the effectiveness of implementing ESP packet processing within IPsec using the “Grasshopper” cipher in AEAD-MGM mode on GPUs. This can significantly improve transmission capacity and improve security.

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