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> 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
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.
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>I checked the mail archive and couldn't find anything on
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,
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> I was wondering if there
RC4-SHA or RC4-MD5 is very secure (128bits) and fast , comparing to
triple-DES which is one of the most secure (168bits) but also much
slower than RC4...
A pretty common cipher suite used is RC4-MD5 with RSA for Key Exchange
(I prefer RC4-SHA w/ RSA for Kx)
Just an opinion of course :)
--fra
