benchmarks vs aes-gcm

pkg/meta/internal/crypto/secretbox_test.go

@@ -2,7 +2,12 @@ package crypto
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"crypto/aes"
+	"crypto/cipher"
 	"crypto/rand"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
@@ -142,3 +147,147 @@ func tamperWithBytes(data []byte) []byte {
 	tampered[24] ^= 0x01 // Modify first byte after nonce
 	return tampered
 }
+
+func encryptWithAESKey(data, key []byte) ([]byte, error) {
+	if err := validateKey(key); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	block, err := aes.NewCipher(key)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	aesGCM, err := cipher.NewGCM(block)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	nonce := make([]byte, aesGCM.NonceSize())
+	if _, err := io.ReadFull(rand.Reader, nonce); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	return aesGCM.Seal(nonce, nonce, data, nil), nil
+}
+
+func decryptWithAESKey(data, key []byte) ([]byte, error) {
+	if err := validateKey(key); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	block, err := aes.NewCipher(key)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	aesGCM, err := cipher.NewGCM(block)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	nonceSize := aesGCM.NonceSize()
+	if len(data) < nonceSize {
+		return nil, ErrShortCipherText
+	}
+
+	nonce, ciphertext := data[:nonceSize], data[nonceSize:]
+	plaintext, err := aesGCM.Open(nil, nonce, ciphertext, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, errors.New("decryption failed")
+	}
+
+	return plaintext, nil
+}
+
+func BenchmarkEncryption(b *testing.B) {
+	key := make([]byte, keySize)
+	_, err := rand.Read(key)
+	require.NoError(b, err)
+
+	sizes := []int{16, 64, 256, 1024, 4096} // Test different payload sizes
+	for _, size := range sizes {
+		data := make([]byte, size)
+		_, err := rand.Read(data)
+		require.NoError(b, err)
+
+		b.Run(fmt.Sprintf("Secretbox-%dB", size), func(b *testing.B) {
+			for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+				encrypted, err := EncryptWithKey(data, key)
+				require.NoError(b, err)
+				b.SetBytes(int64(len(encrypted)))
+			}
+		})
+
+		b.Run(fmt.Sprintf("AES-GCM-%dB", size), func(b *testing.B) {
+			for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+				encrypted, err := encryptWithAESKey(data, key)
+				require.NoError(b, err)
+				b.SetBytes(int64(len(encrypted)))
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func BenchmarkDecryption(b *testing.B) {
+	key := make([]byte, keySize)
+	_, err := rand.Read(key)
+	require.NoError(b, err)
+
+	sizes := []int{16, 64, 256, 1024, 4096}
+	for _, size := range sizes {
+		data := make([]byte, size)
+		_, err := rand.Read(data)
+		require.NoError(b, err)
+
+		secretboxEncrypted, err := EncryptWithKey(data, key)
+		require.NoError(b, err)
+
+		aesGCMEncrypted, err := encryptWithAESKey(data, key)
+		require.NoError(b, err)
+
+		b.Run(fmt.Sprintf("Secretbox-%dB", size), func(b *testing.B) {
+			for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+				decrypted, err := DecryptStringWithKey(secretboxEncrypted, key)
+				require.NoError(b, err)
+				b.SetBytes(int64(len(decrypted)))
+			}
+		})
+
+		b.Run(fmt.Sprintf("AES-GCM-%dB", size), func(b *testing.B) {
+			for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+				decrypted, err := decryptWithAESKey(aesGCMEncrypted, key)
+				require.NoError(b, err)
+				b.SetBytes(int64(len(decrypted)))
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestCiphertextSizeComparison shows that Secretbox encryption entails
+// a slightly larger ciphertext overhead of 40 bytes, compared to AES-GCM,
+// whose overhead is just 28 bytes.
+func TestCiphertextSizeComparison(t *testing.T) {
+	key := make([]byte, keySize)
+	_, err := rand.Read(key)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	sizes := []int{0, 16, 64, 256, 1024, 4096}
+	for _, size := range sizes {
+		t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("size-%d", size), func(t *testing.T) {
+			data := make([]byte, size)
+			_, err := rand.Read(data)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+
+			sbCiphertext, err := EncryptWithKey(data, key)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+
+			aesCiphertext, err := encryptWithAESKey(data, key)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+
+			t.Logf("Input size: %d bytes", size)
+			t.Logf("Secretbox size: %d bytes (overhead: %d bytes)", len(sbCiphertext), len(sbCiphertext)-size)
+			t.Logf("AES-GCM size: %d bytes (overhead: %d bytes)", len(aesCiphertext), len(aesCiphertext)-size)
+		})
+	}
+}