Cryptography is the methods of making and using secret writing that is necessary to keep messages private between two parties. Cryptography is compute-intensive algorithm and needs cpu resource excessively. To solve these problems, there exists hardware approach that implements cryptographic algorithm with hardware chip. In this paper, we presents the design and implementation of cryptographic hardware and compares its performance with software cryptographic algorithms. The experimental result shows that the hardware approach causes high I/O overheads when it transmits data between cryptographic board and host cpu. Hence, low complexity cryptographic algorithms such as DES does not improve the performance. But high complexity cryptographic algorithms such as Triple DES improve the performance with a high rate, roughly from two times to Sour times.