Sameer Vijaykar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am an undergraduate student at the Indian Institute of Technology,
> Bombay in India. I have undertaken a course on Cryptography and Network
> security for which I am performing a survey of some cryptography APIs
> from the point of view of their performance and the incorporated
> optimizations. During the survey, I have found that almost all the
> cryptography APIs perform significantly better than a textbook
> implementation in either Java or C++. I want to further explore the way
> in which the algorithms are optimized in order to get a better
> understanding of the observed results. The emphasis here is on
> optimizations in the algorithm itself as well as the implementation thereof.
>
> Although the most API websites provide a great deal of information
> regarding the usage of the API, I could not find satisfactory
> information regarding the development of any API as such. Could someone
> please point me towards any references in this regard. I would gladly
> appreciate any help or suggestions.
I recall Peter Gutmann has written a paper on the design of APIs for
crypto toolkits. Have a look on his site or email him. I don't think
it goes into optimisation though.
That's really the area of hard-core cryptoplumbers like Eric Young ... I
don't think people so much write about it as muck around with code
constructs, run the speed tests, and see if it works.
iang
PS: for other posters, it looks like Cryptix is unmaintained for now.
Most people use Bouncy Castle.
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