AN APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES WITHIN A SECURITY PROCESSOR

摘要

A security processing apparatus is described comprising: a cryptographic processor having a first plurality of security processing resources initially allocated to process a first type of data traffic and a second plurality of security processing resources initially allocated to process a second type of data traffic; a monitor module to monitor load on the first plurality of security processing resources and the second plurality of security processing resources as the first and second types of data traffic are processed; a resource allocation module to reallocate some of the first plurality of security processing resources from the first type of data traffic to the second type of data traffic if detected load on the second plurality of security processing resources is above a specified threshold value.