AES hardware engine for Xilinx Zynq platform

Features:

• modes of operation:

  GCM	ECB	CBC	CTR	CFB	OFB	PCBC
  ✔️**	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️

• 128/256-bit keys

• IPSEC offloading OK

• driver compatible with linux-xlnx v5.4 branch

Notes on GCM support:

Currently, the hw engine is limited to receiving full 128-bit blocks for
processing. This works well for ECB/CBC/PCBC/CTR/CFB/OFB modes of operation
since they only deal with block-sized data, but GCM can process arbitrary-sized
AAD/CRYPTDATA.

The consequence is that we pad AAD/CRYPTDATA with zeros in the Linux kernel
driver before sending it for processing. This means splitting the scatterlist
provided by the crypto layer and creating a new one, which introduces
considerable overhead.

Therefore, there is a lot of room for improvement in this area (converting the
processing pipeline input to deal with arbitrary-sized data).

TODO list

• add fallback cipher in linux driver to handle 192-bit keys
• convert the processing pipeline to deal with arbitrary-sized data
• add support for XTS mode

Quick Start

Generate bitstream for your platform (must have vivado environment sourced).
In my case, the part code for ARTY Z7-20 board is xc7z020clg400-1:

make PART="xc7z020clg400-1" bitstream

Get the bitstream from:

$ ls -lah synthesis/zynq_aes/zynq_aes.runs/impl_1/*bit
-rw-rw-r-- 1 xxx xxx 2,0M sep 17 22:31 synthesis/zynq_aes/zynq_aes.runs/impl_1/zynq_aes_bd_wrapper.bit

Run regression tests (XSIM):

make test

Petalinux Build

Note: vivado and petalinux environment scripts must be sourced prior to running these.

Setup workdir

mkdir zynq-aes-petalinux                                                                                       
cd zynq-aes-petalinux
git clone https://github.com/ovpanait/zynq-aes.git zynq-aes-hw && cd zynq-aes-hw

Generate bitstream and update petalinux layer

In my case, the part code for ARTY Z7-20 board is xc7z020clg400-1:

make PART="xc7z020clg400-1" bitstream # this can take some time
make yocto

Create Petalinux image

export ZYNQAES_XSA="$(realpath synthesis/output/zynqaes_hw.xsa)"
export ZYNQAES_YOCTO_LAYER="$(realpath yocto/meta-zynqaes)"

cd ..
petalinux-create --type project --template zynq --name zynq-aes-build && cd zynq-aes-build
petalinux-config --get-hw-description "${ZYNQAES_XSA}"

echo "BBLAYERS += \"${ZYNQAES_YOCTO_LAYER}\" "  >> build/conf/bblayers.conf
echo "IMAGE_INSTALL_append = \" zynqaes-mod\"" >> build/conf/local.conf

petalinux-build

Sanity runtime test

After booting the generated image, run on target:

mkdir -p /sys/kernel/config/device-tree/overlays/zynqaes
cat /boot/devicetree/pl-zynqaes.dtbo > /sys/kernel/config/device-tree/overlays/zynqaes/dtbo

root@zynq-aes-build:~# modprobe tcrypt mode=500 sec=1
tcrypt: 
testing speed of async ecb(aes) (zynqaes-ecb) encryption
tcrypt: test 0 (128 bit key, 16 byte blocks): 8397 operations in 1 seconds (134352 bytes)
tcrypt: test 1 (128 bit key, 64 byte blocks): 9120 operations in 1 seconds (583680 bytes)
tcrypt: test 2 (128 bit key, 256 byte blocks): 9046 operations in 1 seconds (2315776 bytes)
tcrypt: test 3 (128 bit key, 1024 byte blocks): 7142 operations in 1 seconds (7313408 bytes)
tcrypt: test 4 (128 bit key, 1472 byte blocks): 7132 operations in 1 seconds (10498304 bytes)
tcrypt: test 5 (128 bit key, 8192 byte blocks): 4220 operations in 1 seconds (34570240 bytes)
...

Block design and AXI DMA config