Understanding and Applying Cryptography and Data Security

Addressing real-world implementation issues, this text emphasizes cryptographic algorithm and protocol implementation in hardware, software, and embedded systems. It focuses on cryptographic algorithms, such as symmetric- and public-key, before dealing with construction of cryptographic protocols. The author examines tradeoffs between code size, hardware logic requirements, memory usage, speed, power consumption, and more. He includes examples and problems to evaluate implementation results of several software and hardware languages and provides C and VHDL frameworks and testing environments on CD-ROM. A solutions manual is available with qualifying course adoption.