I have no technical details, but DES in software is generally considered slow. According to this message CAST is even faster than DES in hardware: http://lists.insecure.org/firewall-wizards/2001/Mar/0076.html
You should also consider AES as it's created with cpu load in mind. Lars > -----Original Message----- > From: Hans-Joachim Hoetger [mailto:Hans-Joachim.Hoetger@;MEDIAWAYS.NET] > Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 10:13 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [FW-1] Which is faster, 3DES or CAST128 > > > Hi > A customer wants to use 3DES as encryption because he thinks > its faster than CAST. Until now, i thought, CAST is faster. > (crypting, decrypting and then crypting again must produce > more systemload than just one algorithm.) Unfortunately i > have not found a comparison in the checkpoint documentation. > Can you give me a pointer to some useful information about > this? Thanks in advance. > Kind regards > -- > Hans-Joachim Hoetger voice: +49-5246-80-1555 > mediaWays GmbH fax: +49-5246-80-2555 > PGP: BA D3 11 1A 40 EB 29 35 D9 E2 84 5F 13 55 1E D3 07 6E D9 77 > > ================================================= > To set vacation, Out Of Office, or away messages, > send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > in the BODY of the email add: > set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > ================================================= > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > please see the instructions at > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > ================================================= > If you have any questions on how to change your > subscription options, email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================= > ================================================= To set vacation, Out Of Office, or away messages, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================
