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Re: 3DES performance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sidney Markowitz)
Wed Dec 8 14:04:22 2004
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Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 07:34:31 +1300
From: Sidney Markowitz <sidney@sidney.com>
To: Lee Parkes <leep@bogus.net>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Lee Parkes wrote:
> I'm working on a project for a company that involves the use of 3DES
Note that AES is significantly faster than 3DES. The slow speed of 3DES
was at least one of the motivations for soliciting a new algorithm to be
selected for AES.
try 'openssl speed des-ede3 aes' for a comparison.
-- sidney
http://www.sidney.com/
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