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Subject: Re: Pipes password from kdialog to geli attach
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:27:35 +0200 (CEST)
Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> wrote:

> Blowfish". Blowfish is much faster than AES, especially with these
> short keylengths.

Is it? Blowfish is very fast when you use it to encrypt a whole file,
but it deliberately has a high initialization cost to prevent its speed
aiding a brute force attacks against beginning of the ciphertext.  

Presumably geli encrypts a sector at a time, so it's not obvious
whether Blowfish is all that fast. Do you know of any Benchmarks for
Blowfish verses AES?