Performance measurements › arm_1 › sign-03 · system: x86_1 · arm_1

sign-03 CEDRUS+C — performance on AArch64 (system arm_1)

Independent measurement following the structure of the NICCS ARM self-assessment guide, §3.5 (1)–(7). Not a submitter self-assessment.

1. Basic information

Category: public-key algorithm; function: digital signature
Algorithm: CEDRUS+C
Implementation versions measured: reference
Parameter sets: CEDRUSC-160f, CEDRUSC-160s, CEDRUSC-256f, CEDRUSC-256s, CEDRUSC-384f, CEDRUSC-384s, CEDRUSC-512f, CEDRUSC-512s
Security evaluation: sign-03 report
Measurement method: arm_1 method
Submission: NICCS page

2. Assessment environment

item	value
processor	Qualcomm Oryon (CPU 2, one core)
machine	ASUS Vivobook S 15
clock	fixed 2.71 GHz (governor performance, minimum = maximum), boost off, SMT none
memory	30562 MiB
OS / kernel	Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS / 7.0.0-34-generic
compiler / build tool	gcc (Ubuntu 15.2.0-16ubuntu1) 15.2.0 / cmake version 4.2.3
campaign start / end (UTC)	2026-09-28T15:05:46 / 2026-09-29T08:43:52

3. Functional testing (KAT)

Each library was checked against the submitted KAT vectors (SHA-256 manifest sign-03/kat.sha256 in the harness) before timing.

instance	build flags	KAT
`CEDRUSC-160f`	guide	PASS
`CEDRUSC-160s`	guide	PASS
`CEDRUSC-256f`	guide	PASS
`CEDRUSC-256s`	guide	PASS
`CEDRUSC-384f`	guide	PASS
`CEDRUSC-384s`	guide	PASS
`CEDRUSC-512f`	guide	PASS
`CEDRUSC-512s`	guide	PASS

4. Performance

instance	operation	mean cycles	mean time	ops/s	median trial	n (trials × iters)
`CEDRUSC-160f`	keygen	13.62 M	5.05 ms	198	5.05 ms	625 (5 × 125)
`CEDRUSC-160f`	sign	488.05 M	181 ms	5.52	181 ms	100 (5 × 20)
`CEDRUSC-160f`	verify	14.58 M	5.41 ms	185	5.41 ms	585 (5 × 117)
`CEDRUSC-160s`	keygen	560.03 M	208 ms	4.81	206 ms	100 (5 × 20)
`CEDRUSC-160s`	sign	8.23 G	3.06 s	0.327	3.05 s	100 (5 × 20)
`CEDRUSC-160s`	verify	19.88 M	7.38 ms	136	7.38 ms	430 (5 × 86)
`CEDRUSC-256f`	keygen	43.98 M	16.3 ms	61.3	16.2 ms	195 (5 × 39)
`CEDRUSC-256f`	sign	1.19 G	441 ms	2.27	437 ms	100 (5 × 20)
`CEDRUSC-256f`	verify	20.06 M	7.44 ms	134	7.44 ms	425 (5 × 85)
`CEDRUSC-256s`	keygen	909.66 M	338 ms	2.96	338 ms	100 (5 × 20)
`CEDRUSC-256s`	sign	12.03 G	4.46 s	0.224	4.45 s	80 (5 × 16)
`CEDRUSC-256s`	verify	33.22 M	12.3 ms	81.1	12.3 ms	260 (5 × 52)
`CEDRUSC-384f`	keygen	624.24 M	232 ms	4.32	231 ms	100 (5 × 20)
`CEDRUSC-384f`	sign	11.81 G	4.38 s	0.228	4.38 s	85 (5 × 17)
`CEDRUSC-384f`	verify	119.41 M	44.3 ms	22.6	44.3 ms	100 (5 × 20)
`CEDRUSC-384s`	keygen	3.11 G	1.15 s	0.868	1.15 s	100 (5 × 20)
`CEDRUSC-384s`	sign	46.73 G	17.3 s	0.0577	17.3 s	20 (5 × 4)
`CEDRUSC-384s`	verify	50.58 M	18.8 ms	53.3	18.8 ms	165 (5 × 33)
`CEDRUSC-512f`	keygen	1.67 G	619 ms	1.62	619 ms	100 (5 × 20)
`CEDRUSC-512f`	sign	23.46 G	8.7 s	0.115	8.7 s	40 (5 × 8)
`CEDRUSC-512f`	verify	150.81 M	56 ms	17.9	56 ms	100 (5 × 20)
`CEDRUSC-512s`	keygen	6.64 G	2.46 s	0.406	2.46 s	100 (5 × 20)
`CEDRUSC-512s`	sign	83.37 G	30.9 s	0.0323	30.6 s	10 (5 × 2)
`CEDRUSC-512s`	verify	109.23 M	40.5 ms	24.7	40.5 ms	100 (5 × 20)

5. Resource consumption

Static memory is approximated by the library's loadable ELF segments; peak memory is the process high-water mark (VmHWM) including the benchmark driver and libc, so both are upper-bound proxies rather than isolated algorithm memory.

instance	operation	static: ELF image (bytes)	baseline RSS	peak RSS
`CEDRUSC-160f`	keygen	28016	1440 KiB	1504 KiB
`CEDRUSC-160f`	sign	28016	1440 KiB	1504 KiB
`CEDRUSC-160f`	verify	28016	1440 KiB	1504 KiB
`CEDRUSC-160s`	keygen	27800	1432 KiB	1496 KiB
`CEDRUSC-160s`	sign	27800	3436 KiB	3500 KiB
`CEDRUSC-160s`	verify	27800	1432 KiB	1496 KiB
`CEDRUSC-256f`	keygen	28012	1464 KiB	1532 KiB
`CEDRUSC-256f`	sign	28012	1468 KiB	1532 KiB
`CEDRUSC-256f`	verify	28012	1468 KiB	1532 KiB
`CEDRUSC-256s`	keygen	27908	1444 KiB	1508 KiB
`CEDRUSC-256s`	sign	27908	1444 KiB	1508 KiB
`CEDRUSC-256s`	verify	27908	1444 KiB	1508 KiB
`CEDRUSC-384f`	keygen	28212	1496 KiB	1572 KiB
`CEDRUSC-384f`	sign	28212	3536 KiB	3600 KiB
`CEDRUSC-384f`	verify	28212	1504 KiB	1572 KiB
`CEDRUSC-384s`	keygen	28356	1480 KiB	1564 KiB
`CEDRUSC-384s`	sign	28356	1496 KiB	1564 KiB
`CEDRUSC-384s`	verify	28356	1496 KiB	1564 KiB
`CEDRUSC-512f`	keygen	28540	1540 KiB	1632 KiB
`CEDRUSC-512f`	sign	28540	1560 KiB	1632 KiB
`CEDRUSC-512f`	verify	28540	1560 KiB	1628 KiB
`CEDRUSC-512s`	keygen	28540	1512 KiB	1604 KiB
`CEDRUSC-512s`	sign	28540	1536 KiB	1604 KiB
`CEDRUSC-512s`	verify	28540	1540 KiB	1608 KiB

6. Transmission and storage overhead

External public-key, ciphertext and signature sizes follow the curated performance/external_sizes.csv catalog; secret-key and shared-secret lengths remain API figures. See the size audit for disagreements.

instance	public key	secret key	signature
`CEDRUSC-160f`	40	80	19812
`CEDRUSC-160s`	40	80	9460
`CEDRUSC-256f`	64	128	43548
`CEDRUSC-256s`	64	128	24104
`CEDRUSC-384f`	96	192	75988
`CEDRUSC-384s`	96	192	61572
`CEDRUSC-512f`	128	256	121520
`CEDRUSC-512s`	128	256	98212

Symmetric primitives

Survey verdict: ICCS-only

Share of each operation spent in the ICCS placeholder hash functions and in the ICCS DRNG (reference build, measured in the same run with link-time wrappers):

instance	operation	pseudohash/XOF/sm3	DRNG	calls per operation
`CEDRUSC-160f`	keygen	97%	0.0%	drng 1, sm3hash 5.01e+03
`CEDRUSC-160f`	sign	97%	0.0%	drng 1, pseudoXOF 348, sm3hash 1.79e+05
`CEDRUSC-160f`	verify	97%	0.0%	pseudoXOF 1, sm3hash 5.3e+03
`CEDRUSC-160s`	keygen	97%	0.0%	drng 1, sm3hash 2.05e+05
`CEDRUSC-160s`	sign	97%	0.0%	drng 1, pseudoXOF 3.32e+04, sm3hash 2.99e+06
`CEDRUSC-160s`	verify	97%	0.0%	pseudoXOF 1, sm3hash 7.34e+03
`CEDRUSC-256f`	keygen	97%	0.0%	drng 1, sm3hash 1.62e+04
`CEDRUSC-256f`	sign	97%	0.0%	drng 1, pseudoXOF 708, sm3hash 4.25e+05
`CEDRUSC-256f`	verify	97%	0.0%	pseudoXOF 1, sm3hash 7.1e+03
`CEDRUSC-256s`	keygen	97%	0.0%	drng 1, sm3hash 3.4e+05
`CEDRUSC-256s`	sign	97%	0.0%	drng 1, pseudoXOF 1.93e+04, sm3hash 4.34e+06
`CEDRUSC-256s`	verify	97%	0.0%	pseudoXOF 1, sm3hash 1.22e+04
`CEDRUSC-384f`	keygen	99%	0.0%	drng 1, pseudoXOF 7.79e+04
`CEDRUSC-384f`	sign	99%	0.0%	drng 1, pseudoXOF 1.47e+06
`CEDRUSC-384f`	verify	99%	0.0%	pseudoXOF 1.48e+04
`CEDRUSC-384s`	keygen	99%	0.0%	drng 1, pseudoXOF 3.86e+05
`CEDRUSC-384s`	sign	99%	0.0%	drng 1, pseudoXOF 5.46e+06
`CEDRUSC-384s`	verify	99%	0.0%	pseudoXOF 6.19e+03
`CEDRUSC-512f`	keygen	99%	0.0%	drng 1, pseudoXOF 2.08e+05
`CEDRUSC-512f`	sign	99%	0.0%	drng 1, pseudoXOF 2.88e+06
`CEDRUSC-512f`	verify	99%	0.0%	pseudoXOF 1.81e+04
`CEDRUSC-512s`	keygen	99%	0.0%	drng 1, pseudoXOF 8.28e+05
`CEDRUSC-512s`	sign	99%	0.0%	drng 1, pseudoXOF 9.97e+06
`CEDRUSC-512s`	verify	99%	0.0%	pseudoXOF 1.33e+04

7. Raw evidence index

Paths are relative to performance/data/arm_1/ in the harness; each JSON file records its commands, environment and trials.

instance	item	file
`CEDRUSC-160f`	KAT log (sha256 `582b1a79a961bd03…`)	`kat/sign-03/CEDRUSC-160f.log`
`CEDRUSC-160f`	timing keygen	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-160f__keygen.json`
`CEDRUSC-160f`	timing sign	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-160f__sign.json`
`CEDRUSC-160f`	timing verify	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-160f__verify.json`
`CEDRUSC-160f`	hash profile keygen	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-160f__keygen.json`
`CEDRUSC-160f`	hash profile sign	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-160f__sign.json`
`CEDRUSC-160f`	hash profile verify	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-160f__verify.json`
`CEDRUSC-160s`	KAT log (sha256 `36424750ef9791d5…`)	`kat/sign-03/CEDRUSC-160s.log`
`CEDRUSC-160s`	timing keygen	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-160s__keygen.json`
`CEDRUSC-160s`	timing sign	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-160s__sign.json`
`CEDRUSC-160s`	timing verify	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-160s__verify.json`
`CEDRUSC-160s`	hash profile keygen	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-160s__keygen.json`
`CEDRUSC-160s`	hash profile sign	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-160s__sign.json`
`CEDRUSC-160s`	hash profile verify	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-160s__verify.json`
`CEDRUSC-256f`	KAT log (sha256 `01406bbcff9dcbd3…`)	`kat/sign-03/CEDRUSC-256f.log`
`CEDRUSC-256f`	timing keygen	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-256f__keygen.json`
`CEDRUSC-256f`	timing sign	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-256f__sign.json`
`CEDRUSC-256f`	timing verify	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-256f__verify.json`
`CEDRUSC-256f`	hash profile keygen	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-256f__keygen.json`
`CEDRUSC-256f`	hash profile sign	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-256f__sign.json`
`CEDRUSC-256f`	hash profile verify	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-256f__verify.json`
`CEDRUSC-256s`	KAT log (sha256 `2bcc2ccc9dd12780…`)	`kat/sign-03/CEDRUSC-256s.log`
`CEDRUSC-256s`	timing keygen	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-256s__keygen.json`
`CEDRUSC-256s`	timing sign	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-256s__sign.json`
`CEDRUSC-256s`	timing verify	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-256s__verify.json`
`CEDRUSC-256s`	hash profile keygen	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-256s__keygen.json`
`CEDRUSC-256s`	hash profile sign	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-256s__sign.json`
`CEDRUSC-256s`	hash profile verify	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-256s__verify.json`
`CEDRUSC-384f`	KAT log (sha256 `4761a33e8eb4e390…`)	`kat/sign-03/CEDRUSC-384f.log`
`CEDRUSC-384f`	timing keygen	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-384f__keygen.json`
`CEDRUSC-384f`	timing sign	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-384f__sign.json`
`CEDRUSC-384f`	timing verify	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-384f__verify.json`
`CEDRUSC-384f`	hash profile keygen	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-384f__keygen.json`
`CEDRUSC-384f`	hash profile sign	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-384f__sign.json`
`CEDRUSC-384f`	hash profile verify	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-384f__verify.json`
`CEDRUSC-384s`	KAT log (sha256 `7ca9a520bc929d9f…`)	`kat/sign-03/CEDRUSC-384s.log`
`CEDRUSC-384s`	timing keygen	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-384s__keygen.json`
`CEDRUSC-384s`	timing sign	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-384s__sign.json`
`CEDRUSC-384s`	timing verify	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-384s__verify.json`
`CEDRUSC-384s`	hash profile keygen	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-384s__keygen.json`
`CEDRUSC-384s`	hash profile sign	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-384s__sign.json`
`CEDRUSC-384s`	hash profile verify	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-384s__verify.json`
`CEDRUSC-512f`	KAT log (sha256 `3d55b1c089da2493…`)	`kat/sign-03/CEDRUSC-512f.log`
`CEDRUSC-512f`	timing keygen	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-512f__keygen.json`
`CEDRUSC-512f`	timing sign	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-512f__sign.json`
`CEDRUSC-512f`	timing verify	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-512f__verify.json`
`CEDRUSC-512f`	hash profile keygen	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-512f__keygen.json`
`CEDRUSC-512f`	hash profile sign	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-512f__sign.json`
`CEDRUSC-512f`	hash profile verify	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-512f__verify.json`
`CEDRUSC-512s`	KAT log (sha256 `600a4468fc4626e2…`)	`kat/sign-03/CEDRUSC-512s.log`
`CEDRUSC-512s`	timing keygen	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-512s__keygen.json`
`CEDRUSC-512s`	timing sign	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-512s__sign.json`
`CEDRUSC-512s`	timing verify	`records/sign-03/CEDRUSC-512s__verify.json`
`CEDRUSC-512s`	hash profile keygen	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-512s__keygen.json`
`CEDRUSC-512s`	hash profile sign	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-512s__sign.json`
`CEDRUSC-512s`	hash profile verify	`profile/sign-03/CEDRUSC-512s__verify.json`

Scripts: performance/campaign.py, performance/ngcc_perf.c, performance/hashprof/ in the harness.