The Speed of NTRU
(RSA 1024 Level Security)

NTRU vs. RSA on Servers Function Units NTRU 251 RSA 1024 NTRU Advantage Encrypt Blocks/sec 22727 1280 17 to 1 Decrypt Blocks/sec 10869 110 99 to 1

NTRU vs. ECC on Servers Function Units NTRU 251 ECC 163 NTRU Advantage Encrypt Blocks/sec 22727 458 50 to 1 Decrypt Blocks/sec 10869 702 15 to 1

NTRU vs. RSA on PDAs Function Units NTRU 251 RSA 1024 NTRU Advantage Encrypt Blocks/sec 21 0.5 42 to 1 Decrypt Blocks/sec 12 0.036 333 to 1

NTRU vs. ECC on PDAs Function Units NTRU 251 ECC 163 NTRU Advantage Encrypt Blocks/sec 21 0.4 52.5 to 1 Decrypt Blocks/sec 12 1.3 9 to 1

Server Comparisons: NTRU's NERI toolkit vs. Wei Dai Crypto++ Toolkit for RSA, ECC (800 MHz Pentium III), (RSA encryption exponent e=65537)

PDA Comparisons: NTRU's NERI portable toolkit vs. published results (for ECC, RSA) specialized for the Palm device, (RSA encryption exponent e=65537)