A method, an apparatus, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for accelerating cryptographic processing are presented. A cryptographic algorithm is parallelized, which includes breaking the cryptographic algorithm into components, parallelizing an entire component if the component is fully parallelizable, parallelizing part of a component if the component is partially parallelizable, and sequentially executing a component if the component is not parallelizable. Processing of the parallelizable component or the partially parallelizable component is distributed to one or more parallelized devices. The parallelized devices include at least one of: a graphics processing unit or a cryptographic processing device, which may include an integrated cryptographic processor or a cryptographic co-processor.