Re: TEA (was Re: filesystem encryption)

Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:21:44 -0400

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M Taylor writes:
> There is SEAL from IBM is really fast, but patented in USA.
> http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/seal.ps

SEAL has been attacked, actually.

I'm personally very skeptical of the claim made that the application
in question needs "very high speed". It is rare that I see any real
end user applications that don't do fine with fairly slow algorithms,
because they usually don't process megabits of data a second. You need
speed when you are moving video or encrypting a whole network.

Perry

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