Performance Evaluation of AES, ARC2, Blowfish, CAST and DES3 for Standalone Systems : Symmetric Keying Algorithms

The paper presents a comparative analysis of different symmetric keying cryptographic algorithms. The algorithms under study are AES, ARC2, Blowfish, CAST and DES3, and the performance metrics for the basis of the study are Encryption time, Decryption time, Throughput, Plain text size vs Cipher text size. The study is conducted for a standalone system, where the algorithms are executed on a quad core i5 processor running Windows 10 and, Python is used as the programming language.