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hash-35 Wish Hash Function — 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: Wish Hash Function
Implementation versions measured: reference
Parameter sets: Wish512, Wish1024
Security evaluation: hash-35 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-35/kat.sha256 in the harness) before timing.

instance	build flags	KAT
`Wish512`	guide	PASS
`Wish1024`	guide	PASS

4. Performance

instance	message	mean cycles	cycles/byte	mean time	MB/s	n
`Wish512`	32 B	245.8 k	7680.8	117 µs	0.3	32295 (5 × 6459)
`Wish512`	128 B	890.3 k	6955.2	425 µs	0.3	11020 (5 × 2204)
`Wish512`	512 B	2.71 M	5300.6	1.3 ms	0.4	3750 (5 × 750)
`Wish512`	1024 B	5.14 M	5020.5	2.46 ms	0.4	2005 (5 × 401)
`Wish512`	4096 B	19.73 M	4815.9	9.42 ms	0.4	525 (5 × 105)
`Wish512`	8192 B	39.17 M	4781.1	18.7 ms	0.4	270 (5 × 54)
`Wish512`	16384 B	78.09 M	4766.3	37.3 ms	0.4	135 (5 × 27)
`Wish512`	65536 B	311.51 M	4753.3	149 ms	0.4	100 (5 × 20)
`Wish1024`	32 B	763.8 k	23868.4	365 µs	0.1	12785 (5 × 2557)
`Wish1024`	128 B	1.59 M	12460.2	762 µs	0.2	6360 (5 × 1272)
`Wish1024`	512 B	4.02 M	7847.5	1.92 ms	0.3	2545 (5 × 509)
`Wish1024`	1024 B	7.24 M	7070.7	3.46 ms	0.3	1415 (5 × 283)
`Wish1024`	4096 B	26.59 M	6491.3	12.7 ms	0.3	390 (5 × 78)
`Wish1024`	8192 B	52.47 M	6404.7	25.1 ms	0.3	200 (5 × 40)
`Wish1024`	16384 B	104.17 M	6358.2	49.8 ms	0.3	105 (5 × 21)
`Wish1024`	65536 B	414.04 M	6317.8	198 ms	0.3	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
`Wish512`	hash_32	14249	1684 KiB	1768 KiB
`Wish512`	hash_128	14249	1660 KiB	1780 KiB
`Wish512`	hash_512	14249	1692 KiB	1756 KiB
`Wish512`	hash_1024	14249	1692 KiB	1784 KiB
`Wish512`	hash_4096	14249	1676 KiB	1784 KiB
`Wish512`	hash_8192	14249	1684 KiB	1784 KiB
`Wish512`	hash_16384	14249	1684 KiB	1788 KiB
`Wish512`	hash_65536	14249	1736 KiB	1864 KiB
`Wish1024`	hash_32	14249	1668 KiB	1732 KiB
`Wish1024`	hash_128	14249	1656 KiB	1780 KiB
`Wish1024`	hash_512	14249	1692 KiB	1760 KiB
`Wish1024`	hash_1024	14249	1672 KiB	1740 KiB
`Wish1024`	hash_4096	14249	1684 KiB	1788 KiB
`Wish1024`	hash_8192	14249	1696 KiB	1772 KiB
`Wish1024`	hash_16384	14249	1668 KiB	1808 KiB
`Wish1024`	hash_65536	14249	1736 KiB	1864 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
`Wish512`	KAT log (sha256 `7f476a6ec1b4f8a8…`)	`kat/hash-35/Wish512.log`
`Wish512`	timing hash_1024	`records/hash-35/Wish512__hash_1024.json`
`Wish512`	timing hash_128	`records/hash-35/Wish512__hash_128.json`
`Wish512`	timing hash_16384	`records/hash-35/Wish512__hash_16384.json`
`Wish512`	timing hash_32	`records/hash-35/Wish512__hash_32.json`
`Wish512`	timing hash_4096	`records/hash-35/Wish512__hash_4096.json`
`Wish512`	timing hash_512	`records/hash-35/Wish512__hash_512.json`
`Wish512`	timing hash_65536	`records/hash-35/Wish512__hash_65536.json`
`Wish512`	timing hash_8192	`records/hash-35/Wish512__hash_8192.json`
`Wish1024`	KAT log (sha256 `63ed769bd79a42ee…`)	`kat/hash-35/Wish1024.log`
`Wish1024`	timing hash_1024	`records/hash-35/Wish1024__hash_1024.json`
`Wish1024`	timing hash_128	`records/hash-35/Wish1024__hash_128.json`
`Wish1024`	timing hash_16384	`records/hash-35/Wish1024__hash_16384.json`
`Wish1024`	timing hash_32	`records/hash-35/Wish1024__hash_32.json`
`Wish1024`	timing hash_4096	`records/hash-35/Wish1024__hash_4096.json`
`Wish1024`	timing hash_512	`records/hash-35/Wish1024__hash_512.json`
`Wish1024`	timing hash_65536	`records/hash-35/Wish1024__hash_65536.json`
`Wish1024`	timing hash_8192	`records/hash-35/Wish1024__hash_8192.json`

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