System-On-Chip Architectures And Implementations For Private-Key Data Encryption

As more and more people and companies want to communicate through computers faster and faster, but also with increasing security, software-based encryption is unable to keep pace with the real-time requirements, say McLoone and McCanny (both of Queen's U., Belfast), and the only feasible alternatives are hardware approaches that involve mapping complex mathematical operations onto special-purpose silicon circuit architectures. They present new generic silicon architectures for the Data Encryption Standard of the US Federal Information Processing Standard, and for the Rijndael symmetric key encryption algorithms, which displaced the former in November 2001 ending its 20-year rule. They describe the design and development process involved in translating from encryption algorithm to silicon chip implementation. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR