Research Article

On Security Management: Improving Energy Efficiency, Decreasing Negative Environmental Impact, and Reducing Financial Costs for Data Centers

Table 3

Security metrics gathered by Crypto Metrics Tool for the purpose of our case study.

Security mechanism Characteristics
Operation type Operation mode Key length Base measure (CPU time)

AES Encryption
Decryption
CBC 128 bytes 0.0000043972 ms

AES Encryption
Decryption
CBC 256 bytes 0.0000060001 ms

RSA Encryption
Decryption
2048 bytes 0.0002539800 ms

RC4 Encryption
Decryption
Stream 128 bytes 0.0000012571 ms

SHA-1 hmac 0.0000016390 ms

SHA-512 hmac 0.0000028952 ms

MD5 hmac 0.0000014137 ms