A generic characterization of the overheads imposed by IPsec and associated cryptographic algorithms

Computer Networks

Volumn 50, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 3225-3241

  Xenakis, Christos ^a   Laoutaris, Nikolaos ^a   Merakos, Lazaros ^a   Stavrakakis, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

AES; Computational overhead; DES; IPsec; MD5; Mobile devices; Security performance; SHA 1; Space overhead

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEAD; DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD (DES); IPSEC; SECURITY PERFORMANCE; SPACE OVERHEAD;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 33748564921     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2005.12.005     Document Type: Article

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