Ahh. FWIW I find the popularity of twofish over serpent interesting. >From wikipedia, the AES votes: Rijndael: 86 positive, 10 negative Serpent: 59 positive, 7 negative Twofish: 31 positive, 21 negative RC6: 23 positive, 37 negative MARS: 13 positive, 83 negative http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard_process#Rounds_one_and_two On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:37 AM, markus reichelt<ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > * Roscoe <eocsor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > FWIW, IIRC, blowfish is not recommended for encryption of large >> > amounts of data. Instead twofish is recommended. >> >> Recommended by who? > > +m > > The Man Himself. > > "Bruce Schneier notes that while Blowfish is still in use, he > recommends using the more recent Twofish algorithm instead." > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowfish_(cipher)#cite_note-schneier-interview-dec-2007-3 > > -- > left blank, right bald > --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
