Secure Systems Encryption

Encryption is more important today than ever before. Encryption ensures that data theft does not result in unauthorized disclosure. How? By making the stolen data unintelligible to anyone who doesn’t have the proper decryption key and algorithm.

What encryption actually does is electronically scramble plain text messages or data so that the original item can’t be determined by looking at it – even when the algorithm used to encrypt it is known!

Encryption is used for just about everything:

• Password validation
• Tape data protection
• Transmission of electronic funds and other transactions
• Purchasing over the Web
• And more…

Encryption provides data privacy in the exchanges of data between two computers, ensuring that only the intended recipient can decrypt and use the data.

Security Development Toolkit (SDK)

This software product provides the MCP crypto API. And the MCP Crypto API provides an easy-to-use interface that gives you system-level access to these cryptographic algorithms:

• Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
• Data Encryption Standard (DES)
• Triple DES (3DES)

Also included are these algorithms for data hashing and for digital signature creation and verification:

• SHA-256
• MD5
• HMAC

Communication Software and SSL

MCP networking software supports SSL. Both the TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 standards are supported. MCP networking software supports:

• Server-side SSL
• Client-side SSL
• Peer authentication