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Re: Nullsoft's WASTE communication system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bear)
Fri Jun 6 15:04:41 2003
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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:07:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: bear <bear@sonic.net>
To: Kevin Elliott <k-elliott@wiu.edu>
Cc: EKR <ekr@rtfm.com>, Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>,
<cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Kevin Elliott wrote:
>Out of curiosity, how does the performance of AES compare to Blowfish
>(seeing as how performance would be the obvious advantage of Blowfish
>over 3DES)? Also are there any patent/license constraints on AES
>(the main reason I think Blowfish has become so common is it's
>"public domain" status)?
AES is public infrastructure. It's available for everybody, worldwide,
without copyright or license or patent issues; that was one of the
conditions for even being allowed to enter the AES competition.
Bear
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