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Security Processors Weave a Safer Web

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: In-Stat
Published: November 2002
Product Code: R97-1101
Description
The security chip market is not currently taking the world by storm. Like most every other semiconductor market, security chips shrank in 2002. However, unlike other chip markets, encryption ICs, find their demand increasing in situations where uncertainty rules supreme. With all that has happened in the last 18 months, the need for encryption chips has never been greater. Not simply some paranoid delusions that security ICs will keep the boogy man away, but because these mathematical wizards of silicon are a key ingredient to helping companies operate more efficiently, and lower operating costs as well. For many reasons - all of which we will explore in this report - security chips will help change the "Internet Everything" hype of 2000 into real and true improvements in the ways companies, worldwide, do business.

However, the tremendous improvements that security chipmakers have achieved over the last several years will soon pay off in droves. As companies continue to feel pressures to perform business over the Web in a secure manner, they are continuously looking for methods to reduce costs. Now that security chips have become dramatically easier to use, OEMs are looking favorably at encryption chips that can make producing security-enabled applications simpler and more cost effective. This is why the encryption chip market will approach $600 Million by 2006.

Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary



  • Report Organization



  • Methodology


  • Technical Overview




    • Technology
      Backgrounder



      • What is
        Encryption?


      • Where is
        Encryption Used?


      • Why is
        Encryption Important?




    • Hashing



      • Secure
        Hash Algorithm (SHA-1, -256, -384, -512)


      • Message
        Digest 2, 4, and 5 (MD2, MD4, and MD5)


      • RIPEMD-160





    • Encryption
      Algorithms



      • NIST Algorithms




        • DES



        • 3DES



        • AES





      • RSA Algorithms




        • RC2



        • RC4



        • RC5
          & RC6






    • Key Exchanges




      • PKI (Public
        Key Infrastructure)


      • Diffie-Hellman



      • RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman)





    • Encryption
      Protocols



      • SSL/TLS



      • IPsec


      • SSH/SecSH
        (Secure Shell)


      • SKIP




    • Performance
      Metrics



      • Transactions
        Per Second (Tps)


      • Throughput





    • Future Technology
      Trends



      • Integration




        • NPUs



        • TOEs



        • XOEs





      • Growth
        of Protocols




    • Programmable
      Protocols




  • Market Overview




    • What Markets
      Use Encryption



      • Web-based
        Transactions


      • Wireless
        Networks


      • Virtual
        Private Networks


      • Offsite
        Storage


      • Tunneling
        IP-based WAN Connections


      • XML-based
        Backend Supply Chains


      • Mobile
        Commerce




    • Growth Factors
      for Encryption Chips



      • Likely
        Growth Factors


      • Possible
        Growth Factors




    • Threat Factors
      against Encryption Chips


    • Overall Trend
      of the Market




  • Forecast


  • Vendor Profiles




    • Encryption
      IP Providers



      • 3rdeye
        Technology


      • Athena
        Group




    • Encryption
      Chipmakers



      • Broadcom




        • Company
          Overview


        • Products





      • Cavium




        • Company
          Overview


        • Products





      • Corrent




        • Company
          Overview


        • Products





      • Hifn



        • Company
          Overview


        • Products





      • Intel



        • Company
          Overview


        • Products





      • Layer N
        Networks



        • Company
          Overview


        • Products





      • Motor
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