17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Wei Dai writes:
On the other hand, if you ask cryptographers what they would use if they were not concerned with efficiency, I think most of them would say triple DES.
I'd say that for most applications these days one needn't worry too much. Almost all my internal communications these days inside my own LAN are encrypted. I hardly if ever notice performance issues. When I do, I decide if I don't care about the traffic (which sometimes is the case) and then I use RC4. Anyway, the point is that performance shouldn't be thought of as an issue unless you have a system built and in use and you find that it is a bottleneck. Often you would be surprised at how little of a bottleneck it really is. Perry