Nullsoft's WASTE communication system

[bear]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Kevin Elliott wrote:

>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)?

AES is public infrastructure.  It's available for everybody, worldwide,
without copyright or license or patent issues; that was one of the
conditions for even being allowed to enter the AES competition.

			Bear


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