The Cryptography Handbook

This article is part of the TechXchange: Cybersecurity.

This article series is in the Communication topic within our Series Library.

Designed to be a study guide for a product development engineer, this series takes an engineering rather than theoretical approach. We hope to give the busy engineer a quick understanding of the basic concepts of cryptography and a relatively fast way to integrate security in his/her design.

• Cryptography: Why Do We Need It? (PDF download)
  
• Cryptographic Fundamentals (PDF download)
  
• Cryptographic Algorithms (PDF download)
  
• The Physically Unclonable Function Delivers Advanced Protection (PDF download)
  
• Cryptographic Implementations: Hardware vs. Software (PDF download)
  
• Time to Think About the How and Where of Cryptography (PDF download)
  
• Easy Cryptography with Secure Authenticators and Coprocessors (PDF download)