str4d/zkalc

A web tool that helps you compare and visualize the performance of cryptographic operations

zkalc is a cryptographic calculator!

zkalc helps you calculate how much time cryptographic operations take on a real computer

Why?

Cryptographers tend to be good at cryptography but they can be quite bad at estimating the time it takes a computer to run their schemes.

We hope that zkalc can help shorten the gap between cryptography and practice:

• Cryptographers can use the simple zkalc UX to learn how fast their paper will run on various machines
• Protocol designers can more easily tune the parameters of their protocol depending on their requirements

Please see the various pages of the website for more information on how zkalc works.

Codebase Structure

• backend/ is the directory with all the benchmarks
• frontend/ is the directory with the website (do npm install and then npm run dev to start it locally)
• perf/ is the directory with the curve fitting logic

Enjoy!