Table 6 Comparison of implementation timings with PKC-PC cryptosystem.

From: Software implementation of systematic polar encoding based PKC-SPE cryptosystem for quantum cybersecurity

Cryptosystem

Timings

Key generation

Encryption

Decryption

Total time

X = 256

PKC-PC

0. 249

0. 016

0. 025

0. 29

PKC-SPE

0. 0784

0. 0041

0. 0029

0. 0854

X = 512

PKC-PC

0. 780

0. 046

0. 067

0. 893

PKC-SPE

0. 311

0. 0127

0. 0068

0. 3305

X = 1024

PKC-PC

1. 533

0. 094

0. 135

1. 762

PKC-SPE

1. 0266

0. 0507

0. 0248

1. 1021

X = 2048

PKC-PC

2. 728

0. 186

0. 224

3. 138

PKC-SPE

1. 5265

0. 1038

0. 0845

1.7148