Re: Offtopic speed of RC4 vs AES from Joseph Ashwood on 2001-01-30 (xml-encryption@w3.org from January 2001)

From: Joseph Ashwood <jashwood@arcot.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:43:14 -0800
To: <xml-encryption@w3.org>
Cc: "Philip Hallam-Baker" <pbaker@verisign.com>
Message-ID: <0a9c01c08afd$515492f0$2a0210ac@livermore>

RE: Signing and EncryptionThose and many others are at
http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai/benchmarks.html There it says (to abbreviate)
Rijndael 30.325 Megabytes (2^20) per second
RC4 (labelled ARC4 to avoid prosecution)  63.039 Megabytes (2^20) per second
See webpage for details.
                    Joe

----- Original Message -----
From: Philip Hallam-Baker
To: xml-encryption@w3.org
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 9:09 AM
Subject: Offtopic speed of RC4 vs AES


This is offtopic but someone here may have an answer that I can use in
another standards group.

Does anyone have benchmarks giving the comparative performance of RC4 and
AES?

        Phill

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