twofish keysize

Malte Gell malte.gell at gmx.de
Mon Apr 19 00:19:58 CEST 2004


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> There isn't one available that I know of.  Why do you want to use 128
> bit keys?  The default is the larger 256 bits.

Maybe he expects a performance advantage when using 128 bit keys instead 
of 256 bit. By the way, are there estimations how much slower a 256 bit 
Twofish key is? I guess one will only notice it whith huge amount of 
data.

Malte
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