DES / AES program
How do I turn in my program?
Send me a gzipped tar-file as an attachement by email to
email@example.com. Running tar
xf should produce
a directory with the same name as your username. This directory should
When make has been executed it should be possible to encrypt
using the command des (or aes).
- the source code
- a makefile so that "make" builds your encryption program
- for Java solutions: a shellscript "des" or "aes" with the line
java Encrypt $*
(assuming your main class is calles Encrypt).
- a README file where you state an estimate of your algorithm's
encryption speed (in bytes of plaintext per second).
You can also include any other information you consider
In order for your program to be a candidate for
fastest encryption it must be turned in on time.
How is it going to be tested?
Your program will be built using your makefile. If you are using
Java, I will use the module jdk/latest (jdk/1.4.0). If you want
something else modify the make-file and the shellscript
The programs will be tested both for correctness and speed by
running them on several input files. The files will be stored
locally on tcs33. Also, a copy of jdk 1.4.0 will be stored
locally, thereby hopefully avoiding AFS affecting the results.
Time will be measured by considering user time and system time
as indicated by /usr/bin/time on tcs33.
Note that I want to be able to write
/usr/bin/time des deskey < infile > outfile
(or /usr/bin/time aes aeskey < infile > outfile).
How will results be announced?
Results for the fastest programs will be posted on the course web
page. Assuming the
winners (one for DES, one for AES) do not mind, their names and
code will also be posted.
When you present your solutions you will also get the results
for your program. You can of course get a pretty good idea by
running time on it yourself.
How do I construct the gzipped tar-file?
For instance, if I (migo) had a C-program called des.c, I would
make a subdirectory called migo/ and therein put my README
file, the file des.c and a makefile.
The gzipped tar-file migo.tar.gz is created by the commands
tar cf migo.tar migo
excecuted in the directory that contains migo/.
The makefile might simply contain the following lines (note
that the second line starts with a tab):
gcc -O4 des.c -o des
Last modified: Tue Apr 16 10:15:01 MEST 2002