Performance of various algorithms used in cryptography

Performance of cryptosystems is a very important process in measuring the performance of Cryptosystems. Communication is the basic process of exchanging information. The effectiveness of computer communication is mainly based on the security aspects. Security of information transmitted over the network is becoming tougher in spite of the availability of many cryptographic algorithms. This paper provides the various factors affecting the performance of Encryption algorithms. This paper also focuses on the factors which affects the security of the information transmitted over the networks. Since our main concern here is the performance of these algorithms under different settings, the presented comparison takes into consideration the behavior and the performance of the algorithm when different data loads are used. The security of algorithms and performance of a given algorithm depends on variety of parameters such as key size, block size, diffusion and confusion properties. This paper presents the analytical results of the cipher which were analyzed quantitatively based on the above mentioned parameters.