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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:27
Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
16 Feb 1999 14:19:23 -0500
Alex Alten <Alten@home.com> writes:
> At 03:01 PM 2/16/99 +0000, Dutra de Lacerda wrote:
> >Examples of safe and lightening fast algorithms: TwoFish, RijnDael, RC6.
>
> I wouldn't call these lightening fast. For example compressed video over
> a LAN requires a minimum enciphering speed of 20 MB/s, these barely cut
> the mustard at 400 Mhz.
1) Compressed video doesn't go that fast in typical applications.
2) Twofish and RC6 are probably fast enough.
> Or consider a packet router, these are then much too slow.
Routers are not usually used as endpoints for encryption.
Except in the addled minds of certain people, that is.
Perry
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:27