wolfssl/wolfcrypt/benchmark

wolfCrypt Benchmarks

Tool for performing cryptographic algorithm benchmarking.

Measurements

• Symmetric algorithms like AES and ChaCha20 are measured in Killobytes (KB) or Megabytes (MB) per second.
• Asymmetric algorithms like RSA and ECC are measured using Operations Per Second (Ops) per second.

Compile Options

Compile with the following options for fixed units. Otherwise the units will auto-scale. See -base10 parameter option, below.

-DWOLFSSL_BENCHMARK_FIXED_UNITS_GB for GB/GiB
-DWOLFSSL_BENCHMARK_FIXED_UNITS_MB for MB/MiB
-DWOLFSSL_BENCHMARK_FIXED_UNITS_KB for KB/KiB
-DWOLFSSL_BENCHMARK_FIXED_UNITS_B for Bytes

To set the output to always be CSV:

-DWOLFSSL_BENCHMARK_FIXED_CSV

Usage

./wolfcrypt/benchmark/benchmark -?
benchmark
-? <num>    Help, print this usage
            0: English, 1: Japanese
-csv        Print terminal output in csv format
-base10     Display bytes as power of 10 (eg 1 kB = 1000 Bytes)
-no_aad     No additional authentication data passed.
-dgst_full  Full digest operation performed.
-rsa_sign   Measure RSA sign/verify instead of encrypt/decrypt.
<keySz> -rsa-sz
            Measure RSA <key size> performance.
-<alg>      Algorithm to benchmark. Available algorithms include:
              cipher aes-cbc aes-gcm aes-ecb aes-xts aes-cfb aes-ctr aes-ccm
              camellia arc4 chacha20 chacha20-poly1305 des
              digest md5 poly1305 sha sha2 sha224 sha256 sha384 sha512 sha3
              sha3-224 sha3-256 sha3-384 sha3-512 ripemd
              mac cmac hmac hmac-md5 hmac-sha hmac-sha224 hmac-sha256
              hmac-sha384 hmac-sha512 pbkdf2
              asym rsa-kg rsa rsa-sz dh ecc-kg ecc ecc-enc curve25519_kg x25519
              ed25519-kg ed25519
              other rng scrypt
-lng <num>  Display benchmark result by specified language.
            0: English, 1: Japanese
<num>       Size of block in bytes

The -base10 option shows as thousands of bytes (kB).

Example Output

Run on Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7920HQ CPU @ 3.10GHz.

./configure --enable-intelasm --enable-aesni --enable-sp --enable-sp-asm && make

./wolfcrypt/benchmark/benchmark
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 wolfSSL version 4.0.0
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
wolfCrypt Benchmark (block bytes 1048576, min 1.0 sec each)
RNG                180 MB took 1.022 seconds,  176.201 MB/s Cycles per byte =  16.76
AES-128-CBC-enc   1250 MB took 1.002 seconds, 1247.878 MB/s Cycles per byte =   2.37
AES-128-CBC-dec   4595 MB took 1.001 seconds, 4591.703 MB/s Cycles per byte =   0.64
AES-192-CBC-enc   1005 MB took 1.003 seconds, 1002.018 MB/s Cycles per byte =   2.95
AES-192-CBC-dec   4345 MB took 1.000 seconds, 4344.744 MB/s Cycles per byte =   0.68
AES-256-CBC-enc    905 MB took 1.005 seconds,  900.386 MB/s Cycles per byte =   3.28
AES-256-CBC-dec   3255 MB took 1.001 seconds, 3251.618 MB/s Cycles per byte =   0.91
AES-128-GCM-enc   4730 MB took 1.001 seconds, 4726.267 MB/s Cycles per byte =   0.62
AES-128-GCM-dec   5140 MB took 1.000 seconds, 5137.596 MB/s Cycles per byte =   0.57
AES-192-GCM-enc   4475 MB took 1.001 seconds, 4471.056 MB/s Cycles per byte =   0.66
AES-192-GCM-dec   3405 MB took 1.001 seconds, 3403.179 MB/s Cycles per byte =   0.87
AES-256-GCM-enc   2640 MB took 1.000 seconds, 2638.905 MB/s Cycles per byte =   1.12
AES-256-GCM-dec   2780 MB took 1.001 seconds, 2776.632 MB/s Cycles per byte =   1.06
CHACHA            2615 MB took 1.000 seconds, 2614.357 MB/s Cycles per byte =   1.13
CHA-POLY          1490 MB took 1.001 seconds, 1488.344 MB/s Cycles per byte =   1.98
MD5                440 MB took 1.010 seconds,  435.763 MB/s Cycles per byte =   6.78
POLY1305          4900 MB took 1.001 seconds, 4896.430 MB/s Cycles per byte =   0.60
SHA                515 MB took 1.011 seconds,  509.459 MB/s Cycles per byte =   5.80
SHA-224            425 MB took 1.005 seconds,  422.737 MB/s Cycles per byte =   6.98
SHA-256            420 MB took 1.006 seconds,  417.312 MB/s Cycles per byte =   7.08
SHA-384            615 MB took 1.003 seconds,  613.018 MB/s Cycles per byte =   4.82
SHA-512            560 MB took 1.007 seconds,  556.230 MB/s Cycles per byte =   5.31
SHA3-224           295 MB took 1.003 seconds,  294.133 MB/s Cycles per byte =  10.04
SHA3-256           280 MB took 1.003 seconds,  279.088 MB/s Cycles per byte =  10.58
SHA3-384           215 MB took 1.002 seconds,  214.654 MB/s Cycles per byte =  13.76
SHA3-512           145 MB took 1.005 seconds,  144.266 MB/s Cycles per byte =  20.47
HMAC-MD5           485 MB took 1.004 seconds,  483.019 MB/s Cycles per byte =   6.11
HMAC-SHA           505 MB took 1.006 seconds,  502.159 MB/s Cycles per byte =   5.88
HMAC-SHA224        415 MB took 1.007 seconds,  411.965 MB/s Cycles per byte =   7.17
HMAC-SHA256        380 MB took 1.002 seconds,  379.398 MB/s Cycles per byte =   7.78
HMAC-SHA384        610 MB took 1.006 seconds,  606.370 MB/s Cycles per byte =   4.87
HMAC-SHA512        620 MB took 1.001 seconds,  619.377 MB/s Cycles per byte =   4.77
RSA     2048 public      52000 ops took 1.001 sec, avg 0.019 ms, 51932.223 ops/sec
RSA     2048 private      1700 ops took 1.022 sec, avg 0.601 ms, 1662.697 ops/sec
DH      2048 key gen      3491 ops took 1.000 sec, avg 0.286 ms, 3490.745 ops/sec
DH      2048 agree        3500 ops took 1.014 sec, avg 0.290 ms, 3452.191 ops/sec
ECC      256 key gen     88961 ops took 1.000 sec, avg 0.011 ms, 88960.279 ops/sec
ECDHE    256 agree       20700 ops took 1.005 sec, avg 0.049 ms, 20605.239 ops/sec
ECDSA    256 sign        53200 ops took 1.001 sec, avg 0.019 ms, 53157.214 ops/sec
ECDSA    256 verify      17200 ops took 1.004 sec, avg 0.058 ms, 17124.208 ops/sec
Benchmark complete

Windows Visual Studio

For building wolfCrypt Benchmark project in Visual Studio open the benchmark.sln. For newer Visual Studio version it may prompt for a one-way upgrade. If prompted to overwrite the benchmark.vcxproj project, select "No". Then you may have to right-click on the solution and choose Retarget solution to update the project files for your Visual Studio version.

If you see an error about rc.exe then you'll need to update the "Target Platform Version". You can do this by right-clicking on the benchmark project -> General -> "Target Platform Version" and changing to 8.1 (needs to match the wolfssl library project).

This solution includes the wolfSSL library project at <wolfssl-root>wolfssl.vcxproj and will compile the library, then the benchmark project.