Over on source-changes, Kevin Chadwick <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't disagree with using AES-128 as default on a possibly busy mail > server. I was just wondering why the word obsolete was used and if it > was simply because twofish and AES are faster. Blowfish is older, not standardized, and hasn't received the attention from the cryptographic community that AES has. Blowfish was interesting back when 3DES was the standard, but everybody has moved on. Speedwise, Blowfish and AES are similar, but AES is more the focus of optimized implementations and can benefit from AES-NI hardware acceleration. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
