Research Article
Resource Consumption Evaluation of C++ Cryptographic Libraries on Resource-Constrained Devices
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-031-17081-2_5, author={Razvan Raducu and Ricardo J. Rodr\^{\i}guez and Pedro \^{A}lvarez}, title={Resource Consumption Evaluation of C++ Cryptographic Libraries on Resource-Constrained Devices}, proceedings={Applied Cryptography in Computer and Communications. Second EAI International Conference, AC3 2022, Virtual Event, May 14-15, 2022, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={AC3}, year={2022}, month={10}, keywords={Performance evaluation Memory usage Cryptographic libraries Resource-constrained devices}, doi={10.1007/978-3-031-17081-2_5} }- Razvan Raducu
Ricardo J. Rodríguez
Pedro Álvarez
Year: 2022
Resource Consumption Evaluation of C++ Cryptographic Libraries on Resource-Constrained Devices
AC3
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17081-2_5
Abstract
With the constant growth of IoT devices, software performance and memory usage have become relevant aspects when choosing the most suitable and optimal configuration of these resource-constrained devices. Moreover, in certain scenarios security must be guaranteed to protect data confidentiality, which imposes another resource consumption overhead. In this work-in-progress we evaluate the resource consumption of two widely-used block ciphers (AES and 3DES) and stream ciphers (Salsa20 and Chacha20), implemented in two C++ libraries (Crypto++andBotan), to find out which library and algorithms are the most efficient for such devices. In addition, we also evaluate whether the type of input data affects the resource consumption. Our results show that the memory consumption is similar across both libraries and algorithms. In terms of CPU,Crypto++outperformsBotan, with ChaCha20 achieving the best performance rates. Regarding the type of input data, no major impact has been noticed.
