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'''Hardware-based encryption''' is the use of [[computer hardware]] to assist software, or sometimes replace software, in the process of data [[encryption]]. Typically, this is implemented as part of the [[CPU|processor]]'s [[Instruction set architecture|instruction set]]. For example, the [[Advanced Encryption Standard|AES]] encryption algorithm (a modern [[cipher]]) can be implemented using the [[AES instruction set]] on the ubiquitous [[x86 architecture]].<ref name="Intel AES Instructions" /> Such instructions also exist on the [[ARM architecture]].<ref name="cortex cryptography" /> However, more unusual systems exist where the cryptography module is separate from the central processor, instead being implemented as a [[coprocessor]], in particular a [[secure cryptoprocessor]] or [[cryptographic accelerator]], of which an example is the [[IBM 4758]], or its successor, the [[IBM 4764]].<ref name="IBM 4764" /> Hardware implementations can be faster and less prone to exploitation than traditional software implementations, and furthermore can be protected against tampering.<ref name="performance" />
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<ref name="Oxford">{{cite web|url=https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/materials17-18/ca/lecture03.pdf|title=x86-64 Instruction Set|publisher=[[University of Oxford]]|pages=1|date=18 April 2017|access-date=24 January 2018}}</ref>
<ref name="NIST National Security">{{cite web |url=http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/documents/aes/CNSS15FS.pdf |title=National Policy on the Use of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to Protect National Security Systems and National Security Information |author=Lynn Hathaway |date=June 2003 |access-date=15 February 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101106122007/http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/documents/aes/CNSS15FS.pdf |archive-date=2010-11-06 }}</ref>
<ref name="IBM 4758 datasheet">{{cite web|url=ftp://www6.software.ibm.com/software/cryptocards/G221-9091-04.pdf|title=IBM 4758 Models 2 and 23 PCI Cryptographic Coprocessor|date=May 2004|access-date=24 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705054058/ftp://www6.software.ibm.com/software/cryptocards/G221-9091-04.pdf|archive-date=2017-07-05|url-status=dead|publisher=[[IBM]]}}</ref>
<ref name="openwrt">{{cite web|url=http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/hardware/cryptographic.hardware.accelerators|title=Cryptographic Hardware Accelerators|publisher=OpenWRT.org|date=17 May 2016|access-date=25 January 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180121000023/http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/hardware/cryptographic.hardware.accelerators|archive-date=2018-01-21}}</ref>
<ref name="NIST approval">{{cite web|url=https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/documents/security-policies/140sp1505.pdf|date=10 December 2012|access-date=20 January 2018|title=IBM 4765 Cryptographic Coprocessor Security Module|publisher=[[National Institute of Standards and Technology]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125015153/https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/documents/security-policies/140sp1505.pdf|archive-date=2018-01-25}}</ref>
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