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Re: 3DES performance

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Grigg)
Wed Dec 8 11:00:28 2004

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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 10:37:44 -0500 (EST)
From: "Ian Grigg" <iang@systemics.com>
To: "Lee Parkes" <leep@bogus.net>
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> Hi,
> I'm working on a project for a company that involves the use of 3DES. They
> have
> asked me to find out what the overheads are for encrypting a binary file.
> There
> will be quite a lot of traffic coming in (in the region of hundreds of
> thousands of files per hour). Has anyone got any figures for 3DES performance?
> I've tried bdes on OpenBSD which has given me some useful results.

Try typing:

    openssl speed

on any Unix platform (until you find one with OpenSSL installed).

iang

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