DPDK Summit 2025

Quantum computers have the potential to break widely used encryption methods, such as RSA and ECC, through algorithms like Shor's. This poses a serious threat to data security, as sensitive information could be compromised. In response, the security industry is actively developing post-quantum cryptography (PQC). These new algorithms are designed to be resistant to quantum attacks, ensuring that data remains secure even in a quantum computing environment. Traditional cryptography relies on complex problems, such as factoring large integers and discrete logarithms, which can be easily solved by quantum computers using Shor's algorithm. Digital signatures ensure data integrity, authenticate the signer's identity, offer non-repudiation.ML-DSA(FIPS 204) is a suite of algorithms for creating and verifying digital signatures, believed to be secure even against quantum computing threats.
The cryptographic operations of ML-DSA can be accelerated in two ways:
1. Crypto-only acceleration with rte_cryptodev
2. Complete protocol acceleration with rte_security
This session will cover how DPDK enables crypto-only and complete protocol acceleration of ML-DSA using rte_cryptodev and rte_security.