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hash-17 MasterCube — performance on x86-64 (system x86_1)

Independent measurement following the structure of the NICCS x86 self-assessment guide, §3.5 (1)–(7). Not a submitter self-assessment.

1. Basic information

Category: cryptographic hash algorithm; function: hash
Algorithm: MasterCube
Implementation versions measured: reference
Parameter sets: MasterCube-512, MasterCube-768, MasterCube-1024
Security evaluation: hash-17 report
Measurement method: x86_1 method
Submission: NICCS page

2. Assessment environment

item	value
processor	12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700 (CPU 2, one core)
clock	max 2.10 GHz, governor performance, turbo off, SMT off
memory	31788 MiB
OS / kernel	Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) / 6.12.107+deb13-amd64
compiler / build tool	gcc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0 / cmake version 3.31.6
campaign start / end (UTC)	2026-09-25T10:02:21 / 2026-09-28T10:51:21

3. Functional testing (KAT)

Each library was checked against the submitted KAT vectors (SHA-256 manifest hash-17/kat.sha256 in the harness) before timing.

instance	build flags	KAT
`MasterCube-512`	guide	PASS
`MasterCube-768`	guide	PASS
`MasterCube-1024`	guide	PASS

4. Performance

instance	message	mean cycles	cycles/byte	mean time	MB/s	n
`MasterCube-512`	32 B	15.4 k	480.4	7.36 µs	4.4	100000 (5 × 20000)
`MasterCube-512`	128 B	24.0 k	187.6	11.5 µs	11.1	100000 (5 × 20000)
`MasterCube-512`	512 B	47.9 k	93.5	22.9 µs	22.3	100000 (5 × 20000)
`MasterCube-512`	1024 B	79.0 k	77.2	37.8 µs	27.1	100000 (5 × 20000)
`MasterCube-512`	4096 B	279.1 k	68.1	134 µs	30.7	35490 (5 × 7098)
`MasterCube-512`	8192 B	544.4 k	66.5	260 µs	31.5	17890 (5 × 3578)
`MasterCube-512`	16384 B	1.07 M	65.2	511 µs	32.1	9830 (5 × 1966)
`MasterCube-512`	65536 B	4.19 M	64.0	2.01 ms	32.7	2420 (5 × 484)
`MasterCube-768`	32 B	22.9 k	715.1	11 µs	2.9	100000 (5 × 20000)
`MasterCube-768`	128 B	31.8 k	248.1	15.2 µs	8.4	100000 (5 × 20000)
`MasterCube-768`	512 B	63.3 k	123.7	30.3 µs	16.9	100000 (5 × 20000)
`MasterCube-768`	1024 B	109.8 k	107.2	52.5 µs	19.5	82680 (5 × 16536)
`MasterCube-768`	4096 B	377.7 k	92.2	181 µs	22.7	26705 (5 × 5341)
`MasterCube-768`	8192 B	740.7 k	90.4	354 µs	23.1	13980 (5 × 2796)
`MasterCube-768`	16384 B	1.44 M	88.2	691 µs	23.7	6425 (5 × 1285)
`MasterCube-768`	65536 B	5.69 M	86.9	2.72 ms	24.1	1845 (5 × 369)
`MasterCube-1024`	32 B	30.6 k	955.4	14.6 µs	2.2	100000 (5 × 20000)
`MasterCube-1024`	128 B	47.6 k	372.2	22.8 µs	5.6	100000 (5 × 20000)
`MasterCube-1024`	512 B	101.7 k	198.6	48.6 µs	10.5	87750 (5 × 17550)
`MasterCube-1024`	1024 B	171.2 k	167.2	81.9 µs	12.5	49815 (5 × 9963)
`MasterCube-1024`	4096 B	590.3 k	144.1	282 µs	14.5	13700 (5 × 2740)
`MasterCube-1024`	8192 B	1.15 M	139.9	548 µs	14.9	9045 (5 × 1809)
`MasterCube-1024`	16384 B	2.26 M	137.9	1.08 ms	15.2	4530 (5 × 906)
`MasterCube-1024`	65536 B	8.93 M	136.2	4.27 ms	15.3	1165 (5 × 233)

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
`MasterCube-512`	hash_32	19197	1680 KiB	1744 KiB
`MasterCube-512`	hash_128	19197	1688 KiB	1752 KiB
`MasterCube-512`	hash_512	19197	1688 KiB	1768 KiB
`MasterCube-512`	hash_1024	19197	1700 KiB	1784 KiB
`MasterCube-512`	hash_4096	19197	1680 KiB	1768 KiB
`MasterCube-512`	hash_8192	19197	1680 KiB	1744 KiB
`MasterCube-512`	hash_16384	19197	1708 KiB	1800 KiB
`MasterCube-512`	hash_65536	19197	1732 KiB	1848 KiB
`MasterCube-768`	hash_32	19277	1688 KiB	1768 KiB
`MasterCube-768`	hash_128	19277	1648 KiB	1776 KiB
`MasterCube-768`	hash_512	19277	1700 KiB	1768 KiB
`MasterCube-768`	hash_1024	19277	1664 KiB	1788 KiB
`MasterCube-768`	hash_4096	19277	1700 KiB	1788 KiB
`MasterCube-768`	hash_8192	19277	1680 KiB	1784 KiB
`MasterCube-768`	hash_16384	19277	1696 KiB	1780 KiB
`MasterCube-768`	hash_65536	19277	1756 KiB	1820 KiB
`MasterCube-1024`	hash_32	19273	1676 KiB	1764 KiB
`MasterCube-1024`	hash_128	19273	1680 KiB	1776 KiB
`MasterCube-1024`	hash_512	19273	1680 KiB	1776 KiB
`MasterCube-1024`	hash_1024	19273	1692 KiB	1756 KiB
`MasterCube-1024`	hash_4096	19273	1700 KiB	1784 KiB
`MasterCube-1024`	hash_8192	19273	1684 KiB	1748 KiB
`MasterCube-1024`	hash_16384	19273	1688 KiB	1792 KiB
`MasterCube-1024`	hash_65536	19273	1760 KiB	1832 KiB

7. Raw evidence index

Paths are relative to performance/data/x86_1/ in the harness; each JSON file records its commands, environment and trials.

instance	item	file
`MasterCube-512`	KAT log (sha256 `0c4c8affbc215d26…`)	`kat/hash-17/MasterCube-512.log`
`MasterCube-512`	timing hash_1024	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-512__hash_1024.json`
`MasterCube-512`	timing hash_128	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-512__hash_128.json`
`MasterCube-512`	timing hash_16384	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-512__hash_16384.json`
`MasterCube-512`	timing hash_32	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-512__hash_32.json`
`MasterCube-512`	timing hash_4096	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-512__hash_4096.json`
`MasterCube-512`	timing hash_512	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-512__hash_512.json`
`MasterCube-512`	timing hash_65536	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-512__hash_65536.json`
`MasterCube-512`	timing hash_8192	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-512__hash_8192.json`
`MasterCube-768`	KAT log (sha256 `a28d5271108fcb84…`)	`kat/hash-17/MasterCube-768.log`
`MasterCube-768`	timing hash_1024	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-768__hash_1024.json`
`MasterCube-768`	timing hash_128	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-768__hash_128.json`
`MasterCube-768`	timing hash_16384	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-768__hash_16384.json`
`MasterCube-768`	timing hash_32	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-768__hash_32.json`
`MasterCube-768`	timing hash_4096	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-768__hash_4096.json`
`MasterCube-768`	timing hash_512	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-768__hash_512.json`
`MasterCube-768`	timing hash_65536	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-768__hash_65536.json`
`MasterCube-768`	timing hash_8192	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-768__hash_8192.json`
`MasterCube-1024`	KAT log (sha256 `5b26023884de899e…`)	`kat/hash-17/MasterCube-1024.log`
`MasterCube-1024`	timing hash_1024	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-1024__hash_1024.json`
`MasterCube-1024`	timing hash_128	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-1024__hash_128.json`
`MasterCube-1024`	timing hash_16384	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-1024__hash_16384.json`
`MasterCube-1024`	timing hash_32	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-1024__hash_32.json`
`MasterCube-1024`	timing hash_4096	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-1024__hash_4096.json`
`MasterCube-1024`	timing hash_512	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-1024__hash_512.json`
`MasterCube-1024`	timing hash_65536	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-1024__hash_65536.json`
`MasterCube-1024`	timing hash_8192	`records/hash-17/MasterCube-1024__hash_8192.json`

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