Computational Efficiency of GnuPG ciphers and hashes
Its often been mentioned on this mailing list, that 3DES is notoriously slow. On the flipside, what cipher is considered the fastest -- or the most computationally efficient (if this term even applies)? Are there similar relative results among the GnuPG hashes? Thanks -- Kevin Hilton ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Computational Efficiency of GnuPG ciphers and hashes
Kevin Hilton wrote: Its often been mentioned on this mailing list, that 3DES is notoriously slow. On the flipside, what cipher is considered the fastest -- or the most computationally efficient (if this term even applies)? Are there similar relative results among the GnuPG hashes? AES is the clear winner, with Twofish a close second. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Computational Efficiency of GnuPG ciphers and hashes
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:14:44AM -0500, Kevin Hilton wrote: Its often been mentioned on this mailing list, that 3DES is notoriously slow. On the flipside, what cipher is considered the fastest -- or the most computationally efficient (if this term even applies)? Are there similar relative results among the GnuPG hashes? AES is probably the fastest cipher in GPG, and MD5 is probably the fastest hash (which doesn't make it good, just fast). Measure it yourself. Get some big file, and do this: for i in 2 3 4 7 8 9 10; do echo Trying cipher $i time gpg \ --cipher-algo S$i --yes --batch --passphrase test --symmetric ~/my-big-file \ echo echo; done David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
