Advanced Encryption Standard Analysis with Multimedia Data on Intel® AES-NI Architecture

The Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) New Instructions (AES-NI) were designed to implement some of the complex and performance intensive steps of the AES encryption/decryption algorithm (cipher) using hardware acceleration. This paper presents the outcomes of a research project aimed at encryption/decryption analysis of the AES cipher in ECB, CBC, OFB, CFB, and CTR modes of operation on the AES-NI architecture for a secure transfer of rich multimedia test data sets of various sizes through IP-sec-based virtual private networks (VPNs).