HiAE: A High-Throughput Authenticated Encryption Algorithm for Cross-Platform Efficiency

A Zig implementation of HiAE, along with support for parallel variants.

Benchmarks

Encryption

Zen4

Variant	Throughput
HiAE	252.0 Gb/s
HiAEX2	449.9 Gb/s
HiAEX4	472.8 Gb/s

Apple M1

Variant	Throughput
HiAE	169.5 Gb/s
HiAEX2	133.9 Gb/s
HiAEX4	98.3 Gb/s

WebAssembly (lime1+simd128)

Variant	Throughput
HiAE	9.2 Gb/s
HiAEX2	11.0 Gb/s
HiAEX4	7.7 Gb/s

MAC

Zen4 (likely limited by the memory bandwidth)

Variant	Throughput
HiAE-MAC	315.8 Gb/s
HiAEX2-MAC	530.4 Gb/s
HiAEX4-MAC	522.2 Gb/s
LeMAC	345.0 Gb/s

Apple M1

Variant	Throughput
HiAE-MAC	163.1 Gb/s
HiAEX2-MAC	182.9 Gb/s
HiAEX4-MAC	138.8 Gb/s
LeMAC	219.2 Gb/s

WebAssembly (lime1+simd128)

Variant	Throughput
HiAE	9.8 Gb/s
HiAEX2	12.0 Gb/s
HiAEX4	7.7 Gb/s
LeMAC	10.0 Gb/s

Circuits

Absorption

Encryption

Inversion