AES256 vs Twofish performance

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:53:34 +0200, Malte Gell said:

> tar'ed /home directory on a Linux box with different types of data. 
> Actually Twofish was really slightly faster, this is interesting since 
> Rijndael's believed speed was one of NISTS's major reasons why it 

Our Twofish implementation is highly optimized but the AES code is
pretty much the reference code without any serious optimizations.

  Werner