Leichter, Jerry wrote:
| Jon Callas wrote:
| >
| >
| > Moreover, AES-256 is 20-ish percent slower than AES-128.
| Compared to AES-128, AES-256 is 140% of the rounds to encrypt 200% as much
| data.
AES-256 has a 256-bit key but exactly the same 128-bit block as AES-128
(and AES-192, for that matter).
| So when implemented in hardware, AES-256 is substantially faster.
|
| AES-256 - 18.26 bits per round
| AES-128 - 12.8 bits per round
|
| I imagine that this would matter when the implementation is in a hard disk or
| disk interface.
It would, if it were true.
-- Jerry
I stand corrected.. The source of my error was reading the rijndael
spec, not the nist spec.
DJ
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