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Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 21:18:01 -0400
Ian Clysdale writes:
> As a totally unscientific answer to this question, I just threw
> together a really quick program that encrypted 100 megabytes of data. Using
> the CAST-128 and 3DES implementations from our beta Java toolkit here at
> Entrust, it took 47 seconds to encrypt 100M using CAST-128, and 197 seconds
> to do so using 3DES. (Note that Java is legendarily slow, especially for
> number-crunching.) The CAST implementation isn't stunningly optimized -
> speeding it up is on my to-do list before the final release.
> It's a noticeable difference.
O.T.O.H., I will point out that for many applications like encrypted
logins, the speed difference here will go totally unnoticed.
"It's all in the tradeoffs..."
Perry
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:29 ADT