Performance analysis of security algorithms

Abstract

Computers have become more and more potent over the years, and consequently, it has become more comfortable and easier to break encryption and hashing algorithms. Hence, it is essential to study the performance of these algorithms and analyze them, and possibly come up with better algorithms based on the knowledge we have gained from the analysis. In this paper, a comprehensive literature study of the conventional encryption and hashing algorithms is done, followed by a practical comparison of the time-efficiency and CPU usage of these algorithms, two important performance evaluation parameters.