At 03:02 PM 5/6/00 -0400, Nathan Saper wrote:
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>Comrades:
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>Which is better for everyday encryption where speed is not a big issue? I
>know that Blowfish is better than vanilla DES, but is it better than 3DES?
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Blowfish's key schedule is a bitch, which is good, if key agility
doesn't matter. DES's is the opposite, you can
pipeline (and crack) that mother with a new key for every block. Besides,
you can use over twice the key length w/ BF, and Blowfish is much faster in
s/ware. Margin *good*.
