BENCHMARKS_classic.md

Benchmarks for Covercrypt: classic implementation (pre-quantum)

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Benchmark Results
  • Header encryption
  • Header encryption and decryption
  • Key serialization
  • Header serialization

Overview

This is a benchmark comparison report.

Benchmark Results

Header encryption

	1 partition(s), 1 access	2 partition(s), 1 access	3 partition(s), 1 access	4 partition(s), 1 access	5 partition(s), 1 access
	133.32 us (1.00x)	182.22 us (1.37x slower)	230.37 us (1.73x slower)	278.18 us (2.09x slower)	335.55 us (2.52x slower)

Header encryption and decryption

	ciphertexts with 1 partition(s), usk with 1 partitions	ciphertexts with 2 partition(s), usk with 1 partitions	ciphertexts with 3 partition(s), usk with 1 partitions	ciphertexts with 4 partition(s), usk with 1 partitions	ciphertexts with 5 partition(s), usk with 1 partitions	ciphertexts with 1 partition(s), usk with 2 partitions	ciphertexts with 2 partition(s), usk with 2 partitions	ciphertexts with 3 partition(s), usk with 2 partitions	ciphertexts with 4 partition(s), usk with 2 partitions	ciphertexts with 5 partition(s), usk with 2 partitions	ciphertexts with 1 partition(s), usk with 3 partitions	ciphertexts with 2 partition(s), usk with 3 partitions	ciphertexts with 3 partition(s), usk with 3 partitions	ciphertexts with 4 partition(s), usk with 3 partitions	ciphertexts with 5 partition(s), usk with 3 partitions	ciphertexts with 1 partition(s), usk with 4 partitions	ciphertexts with 2 partition(s), usk with 4 partitions	ciphertexts with 3 partition(s), usk with 4 partitions	ciphertexts with 4 partition(s), usk with 4 partitions	ciphertexts with 5 partition(s), usk with 4 partitions	ciphertexts with 1 partition(s), usk with 5 partitions	ciphertexts with 2 partition(s), usk with 5 partitions	ciphertexts with 3 partition(s), usk with 5 partitions	ciphertexts with 4 partition(s), usk with 5 partitions	ciphertexts with 5 partition(s), usk with 5 partitions
	236.02 us (1.00x)	293.92 us (1.25x slower)	356.80 us (1.51x slower)	419.65 us (1.78x slower)	480.53 us (2.04x slower)	229.46 us (1.03x faster)	310.51 us (1.32x slower)	406.11 us (1.72x slower)	484.32 us (2.05x slower)	565.05 us (2.39x slower)	227.64 us (1.04x faster)	339.10 us (1.44x slower)	450.91 us (1.91x slower)	543.62 us (2.30x slower)	645.11 us (2.73x slower)	312.85 us (1.33x slower)	446.54 us (1.89x slower)	572.54 us (2.43x slower)	689.37 us (2.92x slower)	810.78 us (3.44x slower)	231.57 us (1.02x faster)	375.80 us (1.59x slower)	527.09 us (2.23x slower)	661.97 us (2.80x slower)	814.49 us (3.45x slower)

Key serialization

	MSK	MPK	USK 1 partition
	801.07 ns (1.00x)	83.76 us (104.55x slower)	118.50 ns (6.76x faster)

Header serialization

	1 partition(s)	2 partition(s)	3 partition(s)	4 partition(s)	5 partition(s)
	10.27 us (1.00x)	10.25 us (1.00x faster)	10.40 us (1.01x slower)	10.41 us (1.01x slower)	10.53 us (1.02x slower)

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