Ideally, commodity hardware devices would have the following basic characteristics:

• full speed, chip-to-chip, link-level privacy and integrity within a device;
• full speed, packet-level privacy and integrity between interconnected devices;
• collision-resistant hash for authentication operations and key compression; and
• a secure hashing pool for the analog random number generator.

These characteristics are traditionally serviced by a dedicated cryptographic coprocessor.  Unfortunately the complexity of building a hardware cryptosystem from general purpose software ciphers is very real and evidently not a viable endeavour for most commodity hardware projects.

VEST is the world's first and only cryptosystem designed exclusively for commodity hardware dedicated projects. VEST is a balanced cryptographic system that is easy to integrate into your project.

VEST tightly integrates three essential high-performance cryptographic operations in one data path, one clock domain, one module, reusing well over 90% logic between operations. Select from a data path that accepts 4-to-64 bits every clock cycle, select from 80 to 256 bit post quantum security ratings, and if required you can use family keying to generate a proprietary cipher variation unique to your application.

If your commodity device currently has DES implemented in hardware you may be interested in exploring ways to upgrade the security and performance of this cipher using Synaptic Labs' PQSDES offering.