Title: Performance Evaluation of
Symmetric
Encryption Algorithms
Abstract: As
the
popularity of internet applications and networks increases, so the need
to
protect them is increased. Encryption algorithms consume a significant
amount
of computing resources such as CPU time, memory, and battery power.
This
paper provides a performance evaluation for four of the most common
encryption
algorithms namely; AES, DES, 3DES, RC2 and. Also a comparison has been
conducted
by running several encryption settings for each algorithm at different
sizes
of data blocks, different data type (text, documents and images), and
different
key size to evaluate the algorithm's encryption/decryption speed.
Simulation
study has been is implemented.
Author: hatem
Mohamed