Abstract:
Cryptography and Encryption methods are means
to ensure confidentiality of data transferred from one computer
to another. While design of appropriate security protocols is vital
for information security, making sure that they are implemented
accurately and effectively is even more important. Effective
implementation of encryption algorithms and security protocols
involves implementing big number arithmetic library. The last
decade has seen increased interest in open source software
development and the process has led to availability of several big
number arithmetic library. In tbis paper we benchmark efficiency
of most popular big number arithmetic libraries based on CPU
cycles and execution time
