DSP application in e-commerce security

This is a case study on using a DSP board to construct an encryption/decryption module embedded in a e-commerce Web server. The idea of using DSP is to push beyond the key length limits of encryption/decryption algorithms and computational power in a software environment while avoiding the heavy investment in a dedicated hardware encryptor/encryptor. The low cost, high computational power, high flexibility of DSP and the ubiquitous availability of a PC peripheral component interconnect slot for the DSP can provide any Web browser or Web server an excellent cost-effective option to improve the security level of Internet applications. The paper provides a step-by-step procedure and reveals every detail of a successful implementation of a DSP RSA encryptor/decryptor for an e-commerce Web server by using the latest TMS320C6000/sup TM/ Evaluation Module (EVM) DSP hardware. A strong prime concept and Garner algorithm are introduced to generate more secure keys and compute encryption/decryption more efficiently than that of recent publications. Experiments show that the performance of using DSP hardware encryption can be 300 times faster than that in software environment.