[Cryptix-users] API optimizations

[Sameer V. <sa...@cs...>]

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.

Thank you.

Regards,
Sameer Vijaykar