Re: [dm-crypt] 1,5 TB partition: use cbc-essiv or xts-plain?

[Sam <test532@codingninjas.org>]

I believe that in the papers the Serpent team submitted for the AES 
competition they claim that Serpent is faster than Rijndael on X86-64.

Sam

> Hi!
>
> Salatiel Filho writes:
> >>....
> >> serpent-cbc-essiv:sha256
> >
> > I really liked this one, using aes-cbs-essiv:sha256 [keysize=256] i
> > was able to get only 0.89MB/s reading via NFS from my ARM 266Mhz.
> > Using serpent-cbc-essiv:sha256[keysize=256] i can get 2,66MB/s,
> > which is really good.
>
> Fascinating.  I thought Serpent was universally the slowest of the
> three big algorithms (AES/Rijndael, Twofish, Serpent) that was used if
> you wanted highest security margins.  Your speed test results come
> quite unexpected for me, especially since AES and Twofish have
> assembler modules while Serpent has only a C implementation in the
> kernel (as of last time I checked).
>
> For me, speed is quite secondary, because I have a fast machine which
> crypts much faster than the USB-2.0 interface can possibly serve the
> data.
>
> **Henrik
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