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Appendix B. Performance Measurements of ChaCha20

Appendix B. Performance Measurements of ChaCha20

The following measurements were made by Adam Langley for a blog post published on February 27th, 2014. The original blog post was available at the time of this writing at <https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/27/tlssymmetriccrypto.html>.

ChipAES-128-GCMChaCha20-Poly1305
OMAP 446024.1 MB/s75.3 MB/s
Snapdragon S4 Pro41.5 MB/s130.9 MB/s
Sandy Bridge Xeon (AES-NI)900 MB/s500 MB/s

Table 1: Speed Comparison