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What does a “cycle” mean in cryptography benchmarks?
In this table, for example, cryptographic algorithm performance is measured in cycles per byte for symmetric ciphers, and in cycles per operation for asymmetric ciphers.
What does "cycle" here mean, ...
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What are the benefits of lattice based cryptography?
Previously we visited the benefits of elliptic curves for cryptography. Lattice based cryptography is starting to become quite popular in academia. The primary benefit of lattice based crypto is the ...
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Besides key and ciphertext sizes what are other advantages of elliptic curve versions of various protocols?
There are elliptic curve variants of Diffie-Hellman, ElGamal, DSA and possibly other protocols/algorithms. I know that these elliptic curve variants have smaller key and ciphertext sizes which will ...
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Calculating cycles per byte
Cycles per byte seems to be a critical concern in designing and choosing stream ciphers. For example, from Wikipedia, RC4 has 7 cycles/byte on original Pentium chips.
How is this calculated? Do they ...
