METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTENDING TRANSPORT LAYER SECURITY PROTOCOL FOR POWER-EFFICIENT WIRELESS SECURITY PROCESSING

摘要

Embodiments of the invention relate to apparatus, system and method for security extensions to the IETF Transport Layer Protocol (TLS) and IPsec standards that enable wireless devices to perform power-efficient and streamlined security packet processing. Embodiments of the invention enable a processor to use its existing cryptographic processing engines (e.g., AES-CCM) to perform TLS and IPsec security processing. Packets processed for WLAN and TLS security are processed pipelined, eliminating the multi-loop processing that currently exists, and decreases power consumed to process each packet. In addition, the host/chipset complex is woken up after all security processing has been done in the WNIC.