VEST crypto systems improve the commercial viability of securing the chip-to-chip communications when compared to general purpose software ciphers.

The benefits of VEST chip level cryptography include:

• Robust inter-chip communications (detect modified packet);
• Protection of Intellectual Property (IP) implemented on the chips;
• Protection of IP transported between chips; and
• Simplified EMC emission compliance.

In general purpose computing environments, link-level encryption can be replaced with a packet-based encryption system. With packet-based encryption, hard drive (virtual memory, secured file systems), sensitive SDRAM and sensitive networking operations (VPN) can be secured at exceptional speeds by the on-chip CPU subsystems for the purpose of building affordable secured host platforms reusing off-the-shelf protocols and components.