Capturing surveillance data, whether voice, video, or electronic, is critical to ensuring homeland security. As critical is the ability to stream, receive, and transmit this data securely; and this is where encryptiondecryption (henceforth referred to as encryption) devices play an important role.
The encryption processing takes place in a hardware chip: either an ASIC or an FPGA. The chip implements encryption and decryption using one of the encryption standards – AES, TDES, etc. Such chips are used for data-at-rest applications: in USB drives, HDDs, and other data storage devices that encrypt data as it is written to the medium. These chips are also used when designing custom-built devices – voicevideo transmission and reception equipment, data storage sub-systems, networking devices, and computing devices.

Capturing surveillance data, whether voice, video, or electronic, is critical to ensuring homeland security. As critical is the ability to stream, receive, and transmit this data securely; and this is where encryptiondecryption (henceforth referred to as encryption) devices play an important role.
The encryption processing takes place in a hardware chip: either an ASIC or an FPGA. The chip implements encryption and decryption using one of the encryption standards – AES, TDES, etc. Such chips are used for data-at-rest applications: in USB drives, HDDs, and other data storage devices that encrypt data as it is written to the medium. These chips are also used when designing custom-built devices – voicevideo transmission and reception equipment, data storage sub-systems, networking devices, and computing devices.