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Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018

Filed:

May. 11, 2016
Applicant:

Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ram Kumar Manapragada, Hyderabad, IN;

Manojkumar Panicker, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Faisal Masood, San Jose, CA (US);

Satish Kikkeri, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

CAVIUM, INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/54 (2013.01); G06F 13/4282 (2013.01); H04L 63/168 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01);
Abstract

A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support a mechanism to offload all aspects of inline SSL processing of an application running on a server/host to an embedded networking device such as a Network Interface Card (NIC), which serves as a hardware accelerator for all applications running on the server that need to have a secure connection with a remote client device over a network. By utilizing a plurality of its software and hardware features, the embedded networking device is configured to process all SSL operations of the secure connection inline, i.e., the SSL operations are performed as packets are transferred between the host and the client over the network, rather than having the SSL operations offloaded to the NIC, which then returns the packets to the host (or the remote client device) before they can be transmitted to the remote client device (or to the host).


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