On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Charles Daminato wrote:
> Blowfish is reportedly faster, that is according to Dave Paris (the author
> of DES and Blowfish). It's also a MUCH stronger encryption (DES can use
> up to an 8 bit hash key, Blowfish can use a 56 bit key).
Erm, Blowfish was written by Bruce Schneier; DES was written by committee
at IBM. Plain DES can accept up a 56 bit key; Blowfish up to 448. I have
found Blowfish to be noticably faster than DES on 80586 and up processors.
-jds
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