NetStage/DPR: a self-adaptable FPGA platform for application-level network security

  • Authors:
  • Sascha Mühlbach;Andreas Koch

  • Affiliations:
  • Secure Things Group, Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED), Germany;Embedded Systems and Applications Group, Dept. of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ARC'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Reconfigurable computing: architectures, tools and applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Increasing transmission speeds in high-performance networks pose significant challenges to protecting the systems and networking infrastructure. Reconfigurable devices have already been used with great success to implement lower-levels of appropriate security measures (e.g., deep-packet inspection). We present a reconfigurable processing architecture capable of handling even application-level tasks, and also able to autonomously adapt itself to varying traffic patterns using dynamic partial reconfiguration. As a first use-case, we examine the collection of Malware by emulating an entire honeynet of potentially hundreds of thousands of hosts using a single-chip implementation of the architecture.