1 Executive Summary
Within this report we present the analysis and comparison of cryptographic suites and hashing algorithms with the purpose of defining a single one for use by the CHARIOT system. The results of the analysis point towards the usage of ECC and specifically the ECDSA subset for verification within the blockchain ecosystem. A notable conclusion that stems from this analysis is that ECDSA appears to be the strongest and quickest algorithm for generating digital signatures to date. Source code was also subsequently produced that conducts benchmarking tests on the aforementioned algorithms to support the analysis.