Quality of Protection Evaluation of Security Mechanisms

Table 4

The group of facts refers to symmetric encryption.

Facts
Group name: cipher (symmetric encryption algorithm)
𝑓1(cipher) = RC4
𝑓2(cipher) = 3DES
𝑓3(cipher) = AES
Group name: bs (block size in bytes)
𝑓1(bs)=8
𝑓1(bs)=16
Group name: IV (initiate vector in bytes)
𝑓1(IV)=8
𝑓1(IV)=16
Group name: key (key length in bytes)
𝑓1(key)=16
𝑓2(key)=24
𝑓3(key)=32