Koc Cetin Kaya (ed.) Cryptographic Engineering

Springer, 2008. — 528 p. — ISBN: 978-0-387-71816-3.This book is for engineers and researchers working in the embedded hardware industry. This book addresses the design aspects of cryptographic hardware and embedded software. The authors provide tutorial-type material for professional engineers and computer information specialists.
Cryptography is an ancient art. Chinese, Roman, and Arab cultures often used ciphers to protect military and state communications or secret society documents.
Cryptographic engineering, on the other hand, is a relatively new subject. A cryptographic engineer designs, implements, tests, validates, and sometimes reverseengineers or attempts to break cryptographic systems. The designers of Enigma, an electromechanical cipher machine, were cryptographic engineers; so was Alan Turing who contributed to its cryptanalysis. In our view, anyone who designs and builds electromechanical, electronic, or quantum-mechanical systems in order to encrypt, decrypt, sign or authenticate data is a cryptographic engineer. However, in this book we have narrowed our definition to only electronic systems, specifically, hardware and software systems.
Cryptographic engineering is a complicated, multidisciplinary field. It encompasses mathematics (algebra, finite groups, rings, and fields), electrical engineering (hardware design, ASIC, FPGAs) and computer science (algorithms, complexity theory, software design, embedded systems). It is rather difficult to be a master of all subjects; one usually has to be content with being a master of one. In order to practice state-of-the-art cryptographic design, mathematicians, computer scientists, and electrical engineers need to collaborate.
This book was born out of the class notes of the