Patents Assigned to AEP Systems Limited
  • Cryptographic accelerator
    Patent number: 6963979
    Abstract: A cryptographic accelerator (1) has a host interface (2) for interfacing with a host sending cryptographic requests and receiving results. A CPU (3) manages the internal logical unit in an exponentiation sub-system (7) having modulator exponentiators (30). The exponentiators (30) are chained together up to a maximum of four, in a block (20). There are ten blocks (20). A scheduler uses control registers and an input buffer to perform the scheduling control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: AEP Systems Limited
    Inventors: Christopher Fairclough, Francis Flanagan