AFAIK Blowfish key setup times are very high. That might account for the difference.
All things being equal AES certainly gives you more security than any other cipher. And AES was chosen also because it was found fit for implementation on severely constrained embedded devices. So you get both performance and security with AES. If I were you I wouldn't use any cipher other than AES. regards, Girish --- "Dr. Stephen Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006, ???? ?? wrote: > > > Dear friends I use OpenSSL's speed command testing > the speed of Blowfish and > > AES,find bf-cbc faster than aes-128-cbc.But when I > download a large file > > from intranet of OpenVPN,find bf-cbc seems slower > than aes-128-cbc,why? Can > > you give help? thanks! > > > > > The "speed" command repeatedly calls the > encrypt/decrypt routines in a tight > loop. A real world application will often perform > other operations in between > calls so the results may not agree. > > Steve. > -- > Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: > see homepage > OpenSSL project core developer and freelance > consultant. > Funding needed! Details on homepage. > Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project > http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List > openssl-users@openssl.org > Automated List Manager > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
