Go Crypto Benchmark

Benchmarks crypto libraries against openssl libraries

Go Crypto Benchmark

Go Crypto Benchmark is a tool developed to perform benchmark activities on different popular algorithms. Tool supports Go Crypto and OpenSSL wrapper libraries.

Introduction

The tool will run popular cryto algorithms on the machine, reporting the benchmark numbers on the hardware.

Note: The tool uses forked version of OpenSSL wrapper which can be found here. All credits to the original authors.

Prerequisites

The project has dependency on following libraries

  • OpenSSL version 1.1.1, please refer to docker/Dockerfile for information on installing it on Ubuntu if there’s no debian distribution available.

Build

Docker build dependencies

The build has been tested on these versions and same is recommended.

  • Docker version 18.06
  • Docker compose version 1.22.0

Procedure

Run the following to generate bin/gocryptobenchmark (no Go compiler required):

docker-compose -f docker/compose/docker-compose-build.yaml up

Note:

  1. Generated binary is targeted for Ubuntu 18.04. Binary would be stored in bin directory.
  2. If the build is successful, docker-compose up should exit with status code 0.

Run

To run the benchmark using the OpenSSL and Go crypto, run the following:

./bin/gocryptobenchmark <CRYPTO ALGORITHM TO BENCHMARK> <LIBRARY>

where
  <CRYPTO ALGORITHM TO BENCHMARK> is one of
    Sha256
    Sha384
    Sha512
    Sha3_256
    Sha3_384
    Ecdsa_P256
  <LIBRARY> is one of
    openssl
    crypto

For example, to benchmark Ecdsa_P256, the command is

./bin/gocryptobenchmark Ecdsa_P256 openssl
./bin/gocryptobenchmark Ecdsa_P256 crypto

Note: For ECDSA P256, the data is first hashed using SHA 256.

Troubleshooting

Machine in proxy network

If you’re using the tool on a machine in a proxy network environment, the build may fail to get required packages. Please create a file config.json with following contents and place it under /home/$USER/.docker/ directory. Create the directory if not present already. The file looks like the following

{
 "proxies":
 {
   "default":
   {
     "httpProxy": "http://proxy-address-here:80",
     "httpsProxy": "http://proxy-address-here:443",
     "noProxy": "127.0.0.1,localhost",
     "hkpProxy": "http://proxy-address-here:443"
   }
 }
}

Contributing

This software is in development phase and is Apache 2.0 licensed. We accept contributions via GitHub pull requests. Each commit must include a Signed-off-by: in the commit message (git commit -s). This sign-off means you agree the commit satisfies the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO).

License

This software is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0 software license.

© Copyright 2019, Intel Corporation.