"Best" Ciphers?

1999-03-25 Thread Juergen Rensen
Hi everyone, I was wondering if there is something like a "best" cipher to use, ie. which one is the fastest, which one the most secure, which one the best compromise, etc. I checked the mail archive and couldn't find anything on that topic. If anyone knows of any books or FAQs where I can fi

Re: "Best" Ciphers?

1999-03-25 Thread Francois
:) --francois -Original Message- From: Juergen Rensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, March 25, 1999 1:44 AM Subject: "Best" Ciphers? >Hi everyone, > >I was wondering if there is something like a "best" ciph

RE: "Best" Ciphers?

1999-03-25 Thread olga
Hi, SSLeay Programmer Reference has performance characteristics: http://www.psy.uq.oz.au/~ftp/Crypto/ssl.html Also there is a cryptographic lib comparison at: http://www.homeport.org/~adam/crypto/ Olga Antropova. On 25-Mar-99 Juergen Rensen wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was wondering if there

Re: "Best" Ciphers?

1999-03-25 Thread Chris Jalbert
On 3/25/1999 12:02 PM, Juergen Rensen enlightened me with the following: >I was wondering if there is something like a "best" cipher to use, ie. >which one is the fastest, which one the most secure, which one the best >compromise, etc. > >I checked the mail archive and couldn't find anything on

Re: "Best" Ciphers?

1999-03-25 Thread Martin Murray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > My favorite book (and a bible for us wee dabblers) is Bruce Schneier's > Applied Cryptography. In checking out his web page at > http://www.counterpane.com, I noticed he has French, German, and Polish > editions. I bought my copy thru Amazon.c