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Subject: Re: q&d comparison (was Re: [Cryptix-Users] Rijndael - thereal work now begins)
From: Ian Grigg (iangsystemics.com)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2000 - 09:04:34 CDT

Bill Stewart wrote:
>
> Does "90% faster" than DES mean "Rijndael takes 10% as long
> as DES" or "DES takes 190% as long as Rijndael"?

The latter. In the sense of twice as fast, or nearly twice as
fast. I would expect that to become better than twice as fast,
but maybe not three times as fast, in time, as better optimisations
are put in place.

iang