From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C2792EB for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 17:44:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.saout.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.saout.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9Ocdj+q6Y0K5 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 17:44:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from op7.codingninjas.org (op7.codingninjas.org [209.222.52.116]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 17:44:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sschai.localnet (CPE0080c6e9d913-CM000f9f4fecc0.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.249.56.245]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by op7.codingninjas.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DF5FE4E2271 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:44:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Sam Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:43:29 -0400 References: <20090803125342.CF87216440B5@mail.absint.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200908061143.29928.test532@codingninjas.org> Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] 1,5 TB partition: use cbc-essiv or xts-plain? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de 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 > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@saout.de > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt