SoK: CryptographicEstimators -- a Software Library for Cryptographic Hardness Estimation

Abstract

The selection of parameters that offer best possible performance while simultaneously guaranteeing a well-defined level of security is one of the most challenging tasks in cryptographic system design. In order to ensure that the chosen parameters offer a certain level of security an estimation of the computational complexity of the underlying hard problem is required. To date, those estimations are often performed in an ad-hoc manner. This led to a scattered landscape of available estimation scripts, with multiple scripts for the same problem with varying outputs.

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