Keynote lectures

Advancing telecommunications, data storage, military, health, and other “information-sensitive” technologies have designated cryptography as an important design and security factor. The lecture addresses the application framework and VLSI design implementation challenges of modern cryptographic applications and illustrates various cryptography implementation solutions. Hardware designs for cryptography as well as recent algorithmic and mathematical advances in computer arithmetic and alternative number system representations that are useful for cryptography are discussed. The lecture also attempts to give directions towards a more qualitative work model for prospect cryptography system researchers and designers, by bringing up the added scientific value inherent in mathematical and algorithmic improvements rather than on mere hardware optimization techniques or exploitation of certain capabilities of state-of-the-art FPGA devices.