Nullsoft's WASTE communication system

[Kevin Elliott]

At 17:05 -0700  on  5/30/03, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>>  Blowfish has been around longer than Rijndael; I think AES may not yet
>>  have gotten as much cryptographic attention as Blowfish's several-year
>>  headstart has given it.
>I just looked in citeseer and it seems to me that AES has gotten much
>more attention. It certainly will be getting much more in the future.
>I consider AES best current practice and so do most of the
>professional protocol designers I know. If one has some reason not to
>use AES, then 3DES is the appropriate choice. I can't see any reason
>to choose Blowfish.

Out of curiosity, how does the performance of AES compare to Blowfish 
(seeing as how performance would be the obvious advantage of Blowfish 
over 3DES)?  Also are there any patent/license constraints on AES 
(the main reason I think Blowfish has become so common is it's 
"public domain" status)?
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