One of the business requirements is to provision for special encryption of data. This includes both software and hardware encryptions. This solution will entail using of existing encryption framework besides some additional coding for hardware encryptions. Care should be taken to avoid potential response time $($performance$)$ issues.

How will you estimate for s$$ch a need?

Select one:

a$.$ Use alternate estimation methods to take care of performance benchmark related tasks

b$.$ Go by top$-$down function point methodology

c$.$ Go by story point methodology and use general system characteristics of function point

d$.$ Go by Lines of code based top down estimation