Comparison of the performance of Digital Signature and MAC Algorithms
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Today's communications can happen at high speed and with convenience over computer networks. Moreover, the networks and their devices can store data for a long time. However, communicating or storing data over the network can lead to data insecurity, such as loss of data integrity. Therefore, information security mechanisms should be used to verify and secure information. This research article has an objective to test which algorithms capable of verifying data integrity and identifying the authors of the messages were the most time efficient. The algorithms that were studied included ECDSA, HMAC-SHA256, HMAC-SHA512, CBC-MAC-AES128, and CBC-MAC-AES256, all of which could be used to verify the integrity of the information and to identify the author of the message. We compared the execution time efficiency of the 5 algorithms using 10 different sizes of data, 20 data sets each and the throughput values were considered.
From the study, the HMAC-SHA256 algorithm was the least time-consuming so it was the most efficient. In addition, the algorithm was more efficient when the data became larger than well. This was then followed by HMAC-SHA512, ECDSA, CBC-MAC-AES128, and CBC-MAC-AES256 respectively.
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