International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 12 January 2014

Chase Manny
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In this paper, we provide performance measures for software implementations of the NSA-designed Speck128 block cipher together with various existing authenticated encryption modes. We investigated Speck128 using GCM, CCM, EAX, OCB3, COPA, and PAEAD-1, and we briefly discuss performance advantages and disadvantages of each mode. Our results indicate that Speck128 is capable of performing extremely fast authenticated encryption, as fast as 3.4 cycles/byte on a modern x86-based 64-bit processor.

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