17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
"Mark M." writes:
I was unaware that PGPPhone used Blowfish, but if it does that was a stupid idea in the first place.
Blowfish is unpatented, free for commercial use, and very fast so I don't see how the use of Blowfish could be considered stupid. IDEA and triple-DES may be more secure, but I think that they are too slow for voice communication.
Huh? Voice communication is typically under 20kbps. Using Phil Karn's latest code, a pentium can do about 10Mbps for single DES, and presumably about 3Mbps for 3DES. Thats orders of magnitude larger than you need. 3DES is unencumbered. Perry