diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst
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+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ Programmer's Guide
     vhost_lib
     metrics_lib
     bpf_lib
+    ipsec_lib
     source_org
     dev_kit_build_system
     dev_kit_root_make_help
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/ipsec_lib.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/ipsec_lib.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+    Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation.
+
+IPsec Packet Processing Library
+===============================
+
+DPDK provides a library for IPsec data-path processing.
+The library utilizes the existing DPDK crypto-dev and
+security API to provide the application with a transparent and
+high performant IPsec packet processing API.
+The library is concentrated on data-path protocols processing
+(ESP and AH), IKE protocol(s) implementation is out of scope
+for this library.
+
+SA level API
+------------
+
+This API operates on the IPsec Security Association (SA) level.
+It provides functionality that allows user for given SA to process
+inbound and outbound IPsec packets.
+
+To be more specific:
+
+*  for inbound ESP/AH packets perform decryption, authentication, integrity checking, remove ESP/AH related headers
+*  for outbound packets perform payload encryption, attach ICV, update/add IP headers, add ESP/AH headers/trailers,
+*  setup related mbuf fields (ol_flags, tx_offloads, etc.).
+*  initialize/un-initialize given SA based on user provided parameters.
+
+The SA level API is based on top of crypto-dev/security API and relies on
+them to perform actual cipher and integrity checking.
+
+Due to the nature of the crypto-dev API (enqueue/dequeue model) the library
+introduces an asynchronous API for IPsec packets destined to be processed by
+the crypto-device.
+
+The expected API call sequence for data-path processing would be:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+    /* enqueue for processing by crypto-device */
+    rte_ipsec_pkt_crypto_prepare(...);
+    rte_cryptodev_enqueue_burst(...);
+    /* dequeue from crypto-device and do final processing (if any) */
+    rte_cryptodev_dequeue_burst(...);
+    rte_ipsec_pkt_crypto_group(...); /* optional */
+    rte_ipsec_pkt_process(...);
+
+For packets destined for inline processing no extra overhead
+is required and the synchronous API call: rte_ipsec_pkt_process()
+is sufficient for that case.
+
+.. note::
+
+    For more details about the IPsec API, please refer to the *DPDK API Reference*.
+
+The current implementation supports all four currently defined
+rte_security types:
+
+RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_NONE
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+In that mode the library functions perform
+
+* for inbound packets:
+
+  - check SQN
+  - prepare *rte_crypto_op* structure for each input packet
+  - verify that integity check and decryption performed by crypto device
+    completed successfully
+  - check padding data
+  - remove outer IP header (tunnel mode) / update IP header (transport mode)
+  - remove ESP header and trailer, padding, IV and ICV data
+  - update SA replay window
+
+* for outbound packets:
+
+  - generate SQN and IV
+  - add outer IP header (tunnel mode) / update IP header (transport mode)
+  - add ESP header and trailer, padding and IV data
+  - prepare *rte_crypto_op* structure for each input packet
+  - verify that crypto device operations (encryption, ICV generation)
+    were completed successfully
+
+RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_INLINE_CRYPTO
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+In that mode the library functions perform
+
+* for inbound packets:
+
+  - verify that integity check and decryption performed by *rte_security*
+    device completed successfully
+  - check SQN
+  - check padding data
+  - remove outer IP header (tunnel mode) / update IP header (transport mode)
+  - remove ESP header and trailer, padding, IV and ICV data
+  - update SA replay window
+
+* for outbound packets:
+
+  - generate SQN and IV
+  - add outer IP header (tunnel mode) / update IP header (transport mode)
+  - add ESP header and trailer, padding and IV data
+  - update *ol_flags* inside *struct  rte_mbuf* to inidicate that
+    inline-crypto processing has to be performed by HW on this packet
+  - invoke *rte_security* device specific *set_pkt_metadata()* to associate
+    secuirty device specific data with the packet
+
+RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_INLINE_PROTOCOL
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+In that mode the library functions perform
+
+* for inbound packets:
+
+  - verify that integity check and decryption performed by *rte_security*
+    device completed successfully
+
+* for outbound packets:
+
+  - update *ol_flags* inside *struct  rte_mbuf* to inidicate that
+    inline-crypto processing has to be performed by HW on this packet
+  - invoke *rte_security* device specific *set_pkt_metadata()* to associate
+    secuirty device specific data with the packet
+
+RTE_SECURITY_ACTION_TYPE_LOOKASIDE_PROTOCOL
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+In that mode the library functions perform
+
+* for inbound packets:
+
+  - prepare *rte_crypto_op* structure for each input packet
+  - verify that integity check and decryption performed by crypto device
+    completed successfully
+
+* for outbound packets:
+
+  - prepare *rte_crypto_op* structure for each input packet
+  - verify that crypto device operations (encryption, ICV generation)
+    were completed successfully
+
+To accommodate future custom implementations function pointers
+model is used for both *crypto_prepare* and *process* implementations.
+
+
+Supported features
+------------------
+
+*  ESP protocol tunnel mode both IPv4/IPv6.
+
+*  ESP protocol transport mode both IPv4/IPv6.
+
+*  ESN and replay window.
+
+*  algorithms: AES-CBC, AES-GCM, HMAC-SHA1, NULL.
+
+
+Limitations
+-----------
+
+The following features are not properly supported in the current version:
+
+*  ESP transport mode for IPv6 packets with extension headers.
+*  Multi-segment packets.
+*  Updates of the fields in inner IP header for tunnel mode
+   (as described in RFC 4301, section 5.1.2).
+*  Hard/soft limit for SA lifetime (time interval/byte count).
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst
index fafed0416..43346123b 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst
@@ -105,6 +105,17 @@ New Features
   Added a new performance test tool to test the compressdev PMD. The tool tests
   compression ratio and compression throughput.
 
+* **Added IPsec Library.**
+
+  Added an experimental library ``librte_ipsec`` to provide ESP tunnel and
+  transport support for IPv4 and IPv6 packets.
+
+  The library provides support for AES-CBC ciphering and AES-CBC with HMAC-SHA1
+  algorithm-chaining, and AES-GCM and NULL algorithms only at present. It is
+  planned to add more algorithms in future releases.
+
+  See :doc:`../prog_guide/ipsec_lib` for more information.
+
 
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