[BBLISA] 3des vs blowfish for ssh?

[Ben Eisenbraun]

Dean Anderson wrote:
> I don't think we have any genuine encryption experts, so its hard to say
> which is really better.  3des is still used by banks.  If I recall,
> Blowfish (or perhaps its IDEA or both) is patented.

"Blowfish was designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier as a fast, free 
alternative to existing encryption algorithms. [..] Blowfish is 
unpatented and license-free, and is available free for all uses."

from: http://www.schneier.com/blowfish.html

'man ssh' notes that blowfish is much faster than 3des.

Note also that any reasonably modern and published encryption scheme is 
unlikely to be the weak link in your security.

-b

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