Given the variety of locations in which security can be implemented, the security designer must take into account issues such as whether secure communications are needed to protect all application data (that is, mask the application protocols) end-to-end, whether intermediate systems need access to data (that is, point-to-point protection), and whether the security protections are only for data located on the device (internal storage), among others.
Security Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are typically implemented as cryptographic libraries underlying a variety of management, networking, or data application binaries. They may be statically linked or dynamically linked ...
