16.5.2 Evaluation of the Effective Key Throughput

In this section, we evaluate the effective (peak) key throughput. Figure 10 plots the median of each RBC cryptosystem's effective key throughput on a logarithmic scale. The AES256 implementation, aided by AES-NI, ran several orders of magnitude more efficiently than the public key cryptography variants, achieving 2.17 × 10^8 keys per second. ECC Secp256r1 performed the second slowest at 4.77 ...