Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:10:58 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> This is very useful for encrypting things like video >> streams without an expensive hardware cryptographic accelerator card. >> > I think you vastly overestimate how much hardware one needs to do > something like AES. I ran > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k count=1024| openssl speed aes-128-cbc
I presume you were expecting this to test encrypting a long stream of data. It doesn't. "openssl speed" does encryption internally - the stuff on stdin was ignored. Something like: dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k count=1024 | openssl enc -aes-128-cbc > /dev/null is probably what you want (untested). Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.links.org/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
