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Centre for Computer Science and Technology Centre for Computer Science and Technology
Central University of Punjab Central University of Punjab
Bathinda, India Bathinda, India
shaifykansal@gmail.com

Abstract -With rise in the use of internet in various fields like or human-readable form [1]. In Fig. 1, the plain text is converted
banking, military and government sector, the security and into the cipher text by applying the encryption procedure and the
privacy of the data has been the main concern. Today, most of cipher text is converted back to the plain text through the process
the data handling and electronic transactions are done on the of decryption.
internet. When the information is transferred from the sender to
the receiver over the internet, it may be eavesdropped by an
intruder and thus is a continuous threat to the secrecy or
confidentiality of the data. The popular technique that protects
the confidentiality of the data is cryptography which converts the
plain text into unreadable form and then receiver applies reverse
mechanism to decrypt the unreadable form of data to readable
form. This mechanism is called as encryption-decryption process.
Thus to secure the data over the internet, it is important to find
out which algorithm performs better than the other algorithms.
In this paper, the different symmetric encryption algorithms like
DES, 3DES, AES have been analyzed with respect to different Fig. 1. Encryption-Decryption Flow
parameters and data types (like text files, image) on i7 processor.
Keywords—DES, 3DES, AES The Cryptographic process makes use of an algorithm and a
secret (key) value. The key can be same for both encryption-
decryption process or can be a different one depending on the
I. INTRODUCTION type of encryption algorithm used. Depending upon the type of
key used, cryptography techniques can be divided into two
different categories - Symmetric (secret) and Asymmetric
The internet today has greatly influenced the people around the
(public) key encryption.
world with the increased utility of the internet applications by
the general population throughout the globe. Everyday a large
amount of security related information is accessed and
transferred across the internet in real-life applications. When the
information is transferred from the sender to the receiver over
the internet, it may be eavesdropped by an intruder and thus is a
continuous threat to the secrecy or confidentiality of the data.
The popular technique that protects the confidentiality of the
data is cryptography. Cryptography as the word suggests is the
combination of two words crypto (meaning secret or hidden) and
graphy (an art of writing).Thus Cryptography can be stated as
the art of writing which involves the transition of messages to a
concealed form or unintelligible data. The data is unintelligible
in the sense that understanding of the data is difficult or
impossible. The terms encryption and decryption are mainly
used with the cryptographic process. Encryption is the process
involving the changeover of human-readable plain-text to the
cryptic (cipher) text. Encryption has its reverse process known as
decryption where cryptic text is converted back to the plain text Fig. 2. Classification of cryptography techniques

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Symmetric key encryption is the type of encryption method symmetric block cipher that has replaced DES for the wide
where the sender and receiver makes use of the same secret range of applications .The AES encryption algorithm is a
key for encryption as well as decryption process. Because a block cipher as it works on a single block of data at a time.
single key is used for both functions, secret key cryptography AES makes use of an encryption key and several rounds of
is also called symmetric key encryption. Examples of encryption [10]. The AES takes as input the block length of
symmetric key encryption algorithms are DES, 3DES, AES, 128 bits and the key length of 128,192 or 256 bits
Blowfish [3]. corresponding to 10, 12 or 14 rounds.
In the asymmetric key encryption, two different keys (public
and private keys) are used in encryption and decryption
III. EXPERIMENTAL SETUP
process. One key is used for encryption and the other one is
used for decryption and vice-versa. The two keys are different In order to compare the performance of various algorithms, the
but complementary in function. Information that is encrypted simulation is done in C language, compiled with Borland C++
with the public key can be decrypted only with the Compiler. Table I describes the simulation scenario followed.
corresponding private key of the set and vice-versa. One such
example of asymmetric cryptography is RSA algorithm [3].
TABLE I. SIMULATION SCENARIO

Different Performance Different Hardware

II. ALGORITHMS IMPLEMENTED
Algorithms Metrics Data Configuration
A. Data Encryption Standard
As described in paper [9], DES was the first encryption
Encryption- Text Files
algorithm to be published by NIST (National Institute of DES Decryption (15KB,
Standards and Technology). It was designed by IBM based on
Time, 70KB,
their Lucifer cipher. DES became a standard in 1974 .It is a
Throughput, Intel(R)Core
widely used method of data encryption which uses the private 2MB)
Memory
key. DES applies a 56-bit key to each 64-bit block of data and 3DES (TM) i7-3700
Utilization
maps 64 bit input block into a 64 bit output block. This process CPU
involves 16 rounds or operations and can run in several modes. Image file
The size of the key involved in DES encryption is actually 64
bit although the key size used is only 56 bits as the least
signi¿cant bit of each byte is either used as a parity bit. DES AES
was considered as an insecure block cipher due to its
vulnerability to the brute-force attack and relatively small key-
size.
The various performance metrics [6] that are evaluated
B. Triple Data Encryption Standard
include–
Triple Des was developed as an alternative to address the
Encryption Time - The encryption time is the time that an
flaws in DES without designing a new cryptosystem. 3DES
encryption algorithm takes to produce a cipher text from a
preserves the existing investment in software and equipment
plaintext. It is measured in seconds.
by using multiple encryptions with DES and multiple keys.
Triple DES simply extends the key size of DES by applying Decryption Time - The decryption time is the time that a
the algorithm three times in succession with three different decryption algorithm takes to produce a plaintext from a
keys. It uses as input 64-bit plaintext to produce 64-bit cipher cipher text. It is measured in seconds.
text, similar to DES. But unlike DES the combined key size is
thus 192 bits with actually key-size usage of 168 bits (3 times Throughput - The throughput of an encryption or decryption
56).3DES is thus slower than other block cipher method as it scheme defines the speed of encryption. The throughput of the
essentially applies the DES algorithm three times. In this encryption can be calculated as in equation –
paper, two keys are used for 3DES encryption (K1,K2, K1) Throughput = Tp (Kilobytes)
describing encrypt(k1)-decrypt(k2)-encrypt(k1) mode and for
decryption decrypt(k1)-encrypt(k2)-decrypt(k1) mode [9]. Et (Second)

C. Advanced Encryption Standard where Tp: Total plain text (Kilobytes)

The two major problems faced by the earlier algorithms were Et: Encryption time (second)
the small key size (in case of DES algorithm) and slow speed
(Triple des algorithm). To overcome these shortcomings;
NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Memory Utilization - The Memory Utilization defines how
published a new encryption algorithm known as AES much memory is being consumed by the process while doing
(Advanced Encryption Standard) in 2001. AES is an important encryption or decryption. It is measured in Kilobytes (KB).

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A. Encryption and decryption of text files Throughput (KB/second)

The results for the text files are shown as below--
10

Throughput (KB/sec) --->

Experiment – Calculation of encryption ttime, decryption
time, throughput, memory utilization for text files of different 8
size. 6
DES
4
2 3DES

Encryption Timee 0 AES

15 KB 70 KB 2 MB
(seconds)
File Size --->>
Encryption Time (seconds)-->

Fig. 5. Comparison of Throughpu

ut for various algorithms
4000

3000
DES
2000
3DES Memory Utilization (KB)
1000
AES
16000
0 Memory Utilization(KB)--->
15 KB 70 KB 2 MB 12000

File Size -->

8000 DES
3DES
Fig. 3. Comparison of Encryption Time for variouus algorithms 4000
AES
0
15 KB 70 KB 2 MB
M
Decryption Timee
File Size --->
-
(seconds)
Decryption Time (seconds)-->

Fig. 6. Comparison of Memory Utilizaation for various algorithms

4000
3000
2000 DES Analysis – It has been analyzed that for text files of different
1000 3DES sizes, AES algorithm takes less encryption
e and decryption
time compared to other algorithms. Throughput varies
0 AES inversely to the encryption or decry
yption time. Thus it is more
15 KB 70 KB 2 MB in case of AES algorithm. Memory y utilization of DES is less
than the other algorithms.
File Size -->

Fig. 4. Comparison of Decryption Time for variouus algorithms

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B. Encryption and decryption of image

The image encrypted is shown in Fig. 7 Encrypttion Time
(secconds)

Encryption Time (sec) --->

80

60

40

20

0
DES 3DES AES

Algorithm
ms --->

Fig. 8. Comparison of Encryption Tiime for various algorithms

Fig. 7. Original and Encrypted Imagees

Experiment – Calculation of encryption ttime, decryption

time, throughput, memory utilization for imagge.
Results – Results collected are shown in Tablee II.
Decryption Time
(second
ds)
THMS FOR IMAGE
TABLE II. COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT ALGORIT
DATA TYPE
80
Decryption Time(sec)-->

IMAGE DES 3DES AES 60

40
ENCRYPTION TIME (SECONDS) 24.571 74.7116 4.143
20

DECRYPTION TIME (SECONDS) 24.571 74.7116 4.413 0

DES 3DES AES

Algorithm
ms---->
THROUGHPUT (KB/SEC) 0.244 0.08003 1.448

Fig. 9. Comparison of Decryption Tiime for various algorithms

MEMORY UTILIZATION (KB) 610 690 10016

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throughput than the other algorrithms. AES takes more

Throughput (KB/seec) memory while DES utilizes lesss memory than the
symmetric key encryption algorithms. In future,
other
these
encryption algorithms can be anallyzed for audio and video
data types.
Throughput (KB/sec) -->

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Fig. 11. Comparison of Memory Utilization for variious algorithms

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CONCLUSION
The paper presents the performance evaluaation of different
symmetric key encryption algorithms- DES, 3DES and AES
for text and image data type.
The results show that encryption and decrypttion time of AES
algorithm is less than other algorithms as the number of
rounds is comparatively less in case of AES while 3DES has
more encryption-decryption time as it applies the algorithm
three times. Throughput varies inversely to tthe encryption or
decryption time. Therefore, AES has more annd 3DES has less

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