Alex Alten (Andrade@ix.netcom.com)
Tue, 10 Mar 1998 21:48:06 -0800
At 05:24 PM 3/9/98 +1000, Eric Young wrote:
>
>Blowfish suffers from the key setup costs when sending small amounts of data
>under different keys...... for the fast block ciphers, this only really
>leaves CAST for the domain I'm interested in (SSL/TLS). For my April TLS
Interesting. A while back I looked at the DES key setup costs. Roughly 80%
of the time was spent in key setup as I changed the key for each small payload
(about 100 bytes).
Do you have any metrics on key setup costs for various algorithms?
- Alex
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