Paper 2023/1878
Predicting performance for post-quantum encrypted-file systems
Abstract
Public-key cryptography is widely deployed for encrypting stored files. This paper uses microbenchmarks and purchase costs to predict the performance of various post-quantum KEMs in this application. In particular, this paper concludes that Classic McEliece is (1) the most efficient option and (2) easily affordable. As a quantitative example, the estimated five-year per-user cost of mceliece6960119f is 0.00024 dollars if 100000 files are encrypted and stored for an average user during those five years and each file is decrypted twice on average.
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PDF
- Category
- Applications
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- Keywords
- post-quantum cryptographyencryptionperformance
- Contact author(s)
- authorcontact-pppqefs @ box cr yp to
- History
- 2024-03-27: revised
- 2023-12-06: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2023/1878
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/1878,
author = {Daniel J. Bernstein},
title = {Predicting performance for post-quantum encrypted-file systems},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/1878},
year = {2023},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1878}
}
