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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{../shared/luxcover}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsfonts,amsthm}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.18}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta,positioning}
\hypersetup{colorlinks=true,linkcolor=black,citecolor=blue,urlcolor=blue}
\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section]
\newtheorem{lemma}[theorem]{Lemma}
\newtheorem{definition}{Definition}[section]
\newtheorem{observation}{Observation}[section]
\title{Performance vs Security Tradeoffs\\in Cryptographic Infrastructure}
\author{
Lux Research \\
Lux Industries, Inc.\\
\texttt{[email protected]}
}
\date{2026}
\begin{document}
\luxcoverpage
\begin{abstract}
Security systems that are too slow to use get bypassed. We quantify the performance cost of every cryptographic primitive deployed in the Lux network: MPC threshold signing (50ms at 2-of-3 to 1.2s at 20-of-50), FHE bootstrapping (12ms per gate, $10^7$--$10^9\times$ cleartext), BLS aggregation ($O(1)$ verification regardless of validator count), ML-DSA signatures (3,309 bytes, 51.7$\times$ ECDSA), STARK aggregation ($O(\log N)$ verification compressing $N$ signatures to $\sim$200 bytes), and triple-proof epoch finality (248 bytes, ${\sim}2$--$5$\,ms CPU QuasarCert verification). We measure each primitive on production hardware and present a benchmark table with actual values. We analyze the practical constraint that defines the Lux architecture: achieving sub-second finality with post-quantum security on commodity hardware. The conclusion is that no single primitive satisfies all requirements; the architecture must compose primitives across time scales (per-block classical speed, per-epoch post-quantum security) and across trust models (BLS for speed, MPC for distribution, FHE for privacy).
\end{abstract}
\input{sections/01-introduction}
\input{sections/02-mpc-latency-vs-threshold-size}
\input{sections/03-fhe-compute-cost}
\input{sections/04-bls-aggregation}
\input{sections/05-ml-dsa-signature-size}
\input{sections/06-stark-aggregation}
\input{sections/07-triple-proof-overhead}
\input{sections/08-storage-scaling}
\input{sections/09-the-practical-constraint}
\input{sections/10-benchmark-summary}
\input{sections/99-conclusion}
\end{document}