Anton Lundin <glance@acc.umu.se> writes: > Is des-crypto that hard? Should it impact performance that much? Yes (fcrypt rather than DES, but yes). One of the ironies of encryption is that AES is actually quite a bit faster than DES as well as being stronger. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>