IPsec

Xiphera’s IPsec core ensures the authenticity and confidentiality of data traffic. The scalable, extreme-speed IPsec IP core is tailored for high-bandwidth applications.

IPsec (Internet Protocol Security) is a widely implemented protocol to secure communications across the Internet. Xiphera’s IPsec IP core enhances secure communication at layer three (Network) of the OSI model, ensuring the authenticity and confidentiality of data traffic. It leverages the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in Galois Counter Mode (GCM) with a 256-bit key length, for Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) frame processing within the IPsec protocol.

Xiphera’s scalable extreme-speed IPsec IP core is tailored for high-bandwidth applications, ranging from 10 Gbps to 200 Gbps links. Designed for seamless integration, our IP core supports a vendor-agnostic design methodology, making it adaptable across various high-end FPGA or ASIC environments.

Enhance your network with advanced IPsec protections for...

Data Center, cloud, and edge security

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

FPGA-based SmartNICs

Key features

  • Moderate resource requirements

  • High throughput up to 100s of Gbps

  • Compliant with RFC 4303

  • Powered by AES256-GCM

  • Supports encryption and decryption

  • Streaming interface for simple integration

  • Independent Receive and Transmit channels 

  • Efficient and optimised architecture

  • Easy system integration

  • Vendor agnostic FPGA implementation

Technical specifications

IPsec implementation can be adapted based on customer requirements and the selected hardware architecture. Packet processing can be performed in five different modes: authentication and encryption with or without Initialisation Vector, or passing payload as it is. 

Extreme-speed IPsec AES256-GCM

Product code: XIP7013E

  • Moderate resource requirements with no multipliers or DSP blocks

  • Constant latency

  • Scalable databus width (128/256/512-bit)

  • Hundreds of Gbps, suitable for ultra-fast networks and data centres

Find more technical details, including FPGA resources & peak performance as well as ordering instructions, from the product brief. 

Protection with extreme-speed performance

The underlying crypto engines in the MACsec solutions are based on Xiphera’s own AES-GCM IP (Intellectual Property) cores. With the introduction of our extreme-speed AES-GCM core, we offer extreme-speed IPsec and extreme-speed 100G MACsec IP cores.

Xiphera’s Extreme-Speed Solutions are designed to combine two crucial needs of our modern world: speed and security.