I believe that in the papers the Serpent team submitted for the AES competition they claim that Serpent is faster than Rijndael on X86-64. Sam > Hi! > > Salatiel Filho writes: > >>.... > >> serpent-cbc-essiv:sha256 > > > > I really liked this one, using aes-cbs-essiv:sha256 [keysize=256] i > > was able to get only 0.89MB/s reading via NFS from my ARM 266Mhz. > > Using serpent-cbc-essiv:sha256[keysize=256] i can get 2,66MB/s, > > which is really good. > > Fascinating. I thought Serpent was universally the slowest of the > three big algorithms (AES/Rijndael, Twofish, Serpent) that was used if > you wanted highest security margins. Your speed test results come > quite unexpected for me, especially since AES and Twofish have > assembler modules while Serpent has only a C implementation in the > kernel (as of last time I checked). > > For me, speed is quite secondary, because I have a fast machine which > crypts much faster than the USB-2.0 interface can possibly serve the > data. > > **Henrik > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
