Performance
OCB performance overhead is minimal comparing to classical, non-authenticating modes like CBC. OCB requires one block cipher operation per each block of encrypted and authenticated message and one block cipher operation per each block of additional associated data. There are also two extra encryptions required at the end of process.
For comparison, CCM mode offering similar functionality requires twice as many block cipher operations per each message block (associated data requires one as in OCB).
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