Intel Corporation

Robert P Ottavi

Vinodh Gopal

Wajdi K Feghali

Gilbert M Wolrich

Kirk S Yap

Daniel Cutter

Erdinc Ozturk

Donald F Hooper

Sean M Gulley

John J Vranich

Serge Kornfeld

Matt Bace

Vindoh Gopal

John C Cole

An embodiment includes at least one processing unit to perform at least first and second sets of diffusion-related operations to produce a resulting block from a data block, and that includes at least one stage and at least one other stage. The at least one stage is to select one of first operands and second operands input to the at least one other stage. The first and second operands are respectively associated with the first and second sets of operations, respectively. The at least one other stage involves arithmetic and logical operations common to both the first and second sets of operations. At least one other processing unit is to perform at least one set of cryptographic-related operations (different, at least in part, from the first and second sets of operations) on at least one of (1) another block to produce the data block and (2) the resulting block.

Diffusion and cryptographic-related operations

The present disclosure provides a system and method for performing modular exponentiation. The method may include dividing a first polynomial into a plurality of segments and generating a first product by multiplying the plurality of segments of the first polynomial with a second polynomial. The method may also include generating a second product by shifting the contents of an accumulator with a factorization base. The method may further include adding the first product and the second product to yield a first intermediate result and reducing the first intermediate result to yield a second intermediate result. The method may also include generating a public key based on, at least in part, the second intermediate result. Of course, many alternatives, variations and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment.

Factoring based modular exponentiation

The present disclosure provides a system and method for performing modular exponentiation. The method includes loading a first word of a vector from memory into a first register and subsequently loading the first word from the first register to a second register. The method may also include loading a second word into the first register and loading at least one bit from the second register into an arithmetic logic unit. The method may further include performing modular exponentiation on the at least one bit to generate a result and generating a public key based upon, at least in part, the result. Of course, many alternatives, variations and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment.

Configurable exponent FIFO

An acceleration unit offloads computationally intensive tasks from a processor. The acceleration unit includes two data processing paths each having an Arithmetic Logical Unit and sharing a single multiplier unit. Each data processing path may perform configurable operations in parallel on a same data. Special multiplexer paths and instructions are provided to allow P and Q type syndromes to be computed on a stripe in a single-pass of the data through the acceleration unit.

High performance raid-6 system architecture with pattern matching

The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for generating a Galois-field syndrome. One exemplary method may include loading a first data byte from a first storage device to a first register and loading a second data byte from a second storage device to a second register; ANDing the most significant bit (MSB) of the first data byte and a Galois-field polynomial to generate a first intermediate output; XORing each bit of the first intermediate output with the least significant bits (LSBs) of the first data byte to generate a second intermediate output; MUXing the second intermediate output with each bit of the first data byte to generate a third intermediate output; XORing each bit of the third intermediate output with each bit of the second data byte to generate at a fourth intermediate output; and generating a RAID Q syndrome based on, at least in part, the fourth intermediate output. Of course, many alternatives, variations and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment.

Apparatus and method for generating a Galois-field syndrome

A method and apparatus for transmitting network traffic includes selecting a major node in a major ring, where the major node corresponds to a first transmission opportunity encoded in the major ring. The major node specifies a minor node in a minor ring representing a virtual port. The method and apparatus also includes transmitting network traffic to a virtual connection that uses the virtual port. Alternatively, transmitting network traffic involves processing a schedule that includes a sequence of transmission opportunities encoded in a schedule ring and satisfying a minimum data rate for a scheduled virtual connection by processing a corresponding first minimum number of transmission opportunities from the schedule, each such transmission opportunity allocated by a schedule node to the scheduled virtual connection, where the schedule node is included in the schedule ring.

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Robert P Ottavi