A Performance Comparison of the Five AES Finalists

Performance Evaluation of AES Finalists on the High-End Smart Card

This paper reports the performance of the AES finalists, MARS, RC6, Rijndael, Serpent, and Twofish, on the high-end smart card that has a Z80 core with Toshiba’s arithmetic coprocessor.

Hardware performance of the AES finalists - survey and analysis of results

Performance Impact of Addressing Modes on Encryption Algorithms

Encryption algorithms commonly use table lookups to perform substitution, which is a confusion primitive. The use of table lookups in this way is especially common in the more recent encryption algorithms, such as the AES finalists like MARS and Twofish, and the AES winner, Rijndael. Workload characterization studies indicate that these algorithms spend a significant fraction of their execution...

NISTIR 6483, Randomness Testing of the Advanced Encryption Standard Finalist Candidates

Mars, RC6, Rijndael, Serpent and Twofish were selected as finalists for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). To evaluate the finalists’ suitability as random number generators, empirical statistical testing is commonly employed. Although it widely believed that these five algorithms are indeed random, randomness testing was conducted to show that there is empirical evidence supporting this b...

Randomness Testing of the Advanced Encryption Standard Finalis

Mars, RC6, Rijndael, Serpent and Twofish were selected as finalists for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). To evaluate the finalists’ suitability as random number generators, empirical statistical testing is commonly employed. Although it widely believed that these five algorithms are indeed random, randomness testing was conducted to show that there is empirical evidence supporting this b...