Botan is a BSD-licensed cross-platform open-source C++ crypto library "cryptography toolkit" that supports most publicly known cryptographic algorithms. The project's stated goal is to be "the best option for cryptography in C++ by offering the tools necessary to implement a range of practical systems, such as TLS protocol, X.509 certificates, modern AEAD ciphers, PKCS#11 and TPM hardware support, password hashing, and post quantum crypto schemes."
To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark botan.
* Uploading of benchmark result data to OpenBenchmarking.org is always optional (opt-in) via the Phoronix Test Suite for users wishing to share their results publicly. ** Data based on those opting to upload their test results to OpenBenchmarking.org and users enabling the opt-in anonymous statistics reporting while running benchmarks from an Internet-connected platform. *** Test profile page view reporting began March 2021. Data updated weekly as of 13 April 2024.
Revision History
pts/botan-1.6.0 [View Source] Sat, 27 Mar 2021 12:40:33 GMT Update against Botan 2.17.3 upstream, add ChaCha20Poly1305 option.
pts/botan-1.5.0 [View Source] Sat, 29 Feb 2020 07:51:13 GMT Update against Botan upstream.
pts/botan-1.4.0 [View Source] Tue, 18 Dec 2018 10:44:45 GMT Update against Botan 2.8, explicitly use Python3
pts/botan-1.3.0 [View Source] Thu, 17 May 2018 17:08:55 GMT Update against Botan 2.6 upstream.
pts/botan-1.2.0 [View Source] Wed, 07 Feb 2018 14:47:57 GMT Update against upstream Botan 2.4.0 test and make necessary profile changes for accomodating the upstream alterations for benchmarking.
pts/botan-1.1.0 [View Source] Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:38:52 GMT Update against upstream Botan 1.11.6.
pts/botan-1.0.0 [View Source] Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:28:42 GMT Initial commit of new botan test profile that is a cryptography algorithm benchmark of the Botan C++ crypto library.
OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 667 public results since 29 February 2020 with the latest data as of 21 March 2023.
Below is an overview of the generalized performance for components where there is sufficient statistically significant data based upon user-uploaded results. It is important to keep in mind particularly in the Linux/open-source space there can be vastly different OS configurations, with this overview intended to offer just general guidance as to the performance expectations.
Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Botan 2.13.0 - Test: AES-256) has an average run-time of 2 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 3 times but may increase if the standard deviation exceeds pre-defined defaults or other calculations deem additional runs necessary for greater statistical accuracy of the result.
Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 0.1%.
Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?
No, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does not generally scale well with increasing CPU core counts. Data based on publicly available results for this test / test settings, separated by vendor, result divided by the reference CPU clock speed, grouped by matching physical CPU core count, and normalized against the smallest core count tested from each vendor for each CPU having a sufficient number of test samples and statistically significant data.
Notable Instruction Set Usage
Notable instruction set extensions supported by this test, based on an automatic analysis by the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org analytics engine.
Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: sandybridge, skylake, tigerlake, cascadelake, sapphirerapids, alderlake, znver2, znver3). Found on Intel processors since Ice Lake (2019). Found on AMD processors since Zen 3 (2020).
Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: skylake, tigerlake, cascadelake, sapphirerapids, alderlake, znver2, znver3). Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013). Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).
VFMADD132SD VFMADD213SD VFMADD231SD
Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)
Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: cascadelake, sapphirerapids).
(ZMM REGISTER USE)
The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.
Last automated analysis: 17 January 2022
This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libbotan-2.so.17, libc.so.6, libm.so.6.
Tested CPU Architectures
This benchmark has been successfully tested on the below mentioned architectures. The CPU architectures listed is where successful OpenBenchmarking.org result uploads occurred, namely for helping to determine if a given test is compatible with various alternative CPU architectures.