3DES performance

[Sidney Markowitz]

Lee Parkes wrote:
> I'm working on a project for a company that involves the use of 3DES

Note that AES is significantly faster than 3DES. The slow speed of 3DES 
was at least one of the motivations for soliciting a new algorithm to be 
selected for AES.

try 'openssl speed des-ede3 aes' for a comparison.

  -- sidney
     http://www.sidney.com/

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