Despite the C++ Standard Library having 13 articles worth of content, there’s still quite a bit that it doesn’t contain compared to what’s available in C#’s .NET libraries. Today we’ll look at some of those gaps and see how to fill them.
Posts Tagged encryption
Last week I covered the performance of cryptographic hash algorithms like MD5 and SHA-1. This week I’ll continue by testing the performance of the closely-related encryption algorithms. This includes algorithms like AES, DES, RC2, Rijndael, and TripleDES. Which is fastest? Does the key size, block size, padding mode, or cipher mode matter? Read on to see!