Performance Issues

As supported by our preliminary experimental results, mRSA offers a reasonable alternative to standard RSA from the performance perspective. The measurements show that mRSA is roughly as efficient as the unoptimized RSA. However, the mRSA results lag appreciably behind the optimized RSA which is, after all, the cryptosystem of choice for many popular applications. For this reason, investigation of speed-up and optimization techniques for mRSA is prominent among our plans for future work.

Another important issue is the SEM throughput. Clearly, a real-world SEM must be highly speed-optimized, fault-tolerant and, of course, highly secure. Our initial implementation offers none of these properties and much work remains to be done in this regard. Our plans include migrating SEM to real-time Linux platform and hardening its code for fault-tolerance. Also, a thread-based SEM implementation is under construction.