ABC CIPHER. C REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION WITH PERFORMANCE TESTS

1. PROJECT STRUCTURE

    Folders and files in main project tree are organized as follows.

        README               This file
        Makefile             Makefile for GNU make utility
        ecrypt-portable.h    ECRYPT portable C default macros
        ecrypt-config.h      ECRYPT macros for integer types
        ecrypt-machine.h     ECRYPT platform-specific macros
        ecrypt-sync.h        ECRYPT interface declarations
        ecrypt-sync.c        ECRYPT standard routine implementation
        abc.h                Header declarations of ABC constants
        abc.c                Core ABC routines
        main.c               Various tests of ABC functionality

2. BUILDING PROJECT FOR GNU GCC

    Executable for ABC performance test (abc) is created by executing
    'make all' (or alternatively just 'make') command. Cleanup of object files
    can be performed by 'make clean'. Rebuild of everything is done by
    'make rebuild' command.

3. VARYING IMPLEMENTATION PARAMETERS

   Implementation memory consumption (and therefore speed) can be varied at
   compile time by ECRYPT_VARIANT parameter, specified in Makefile.
   Specifically, ECRYPT_VARIANT controls optimization window size and cycle
   unroll depth in ABC core code. Possible values for ECRYPT_VARIANT are
   defined in the table below.

   ECRYPT_VARIANT   Optimization window size    Cycle unroll depth
   0                1 (no optimization)         1
   1                2                           4
   2                2                           8
   3                4                           4
   4                4                           8
   5                4                           16
   6                8                           4
   7                8                           8
   8                8                           16
   9                12-12-8                     16