General Question about Encryption algorhitms

rbinc · ‎01-17-2003

I was wondering, do you think cisco will incorporate blowfish into their Encryption algorhitms?

thanks

Jenn

gfullage · ‎01-17-2003

AFAIK, there's no plans to incorporate Blowfish into any of the VPN devices. We've just incorporated AES into them and that's the direction we seem to be taking.

engel · ‎01-18-2003

I read in the posting in this forum before, current implementation of AES is in the software only. Any information if the VPN3K`s SCEP will process AES also?

Regards,

Engel

rbinc · ‎01-18-2003

Thank you. I was just wondering. :)

r-ta · ‎01-22-2003

Question: SEP does 3DES at current time?

engel · ‎01-22-2003

Hello,

I think that SEP processes 3DES also, no ?? As long as I see the document of SEP here, it doesn`t mention what kind of encryption algorithm it process in the hardware.

I think the issue is how to upgrade the SEP module to be able to support newer encryption algorithm such like AES.

Regards,

Engel

r-ta · ‎01-23-2003

Assuming software encrypts/decrypts much slower than hardware, then just blast a large file (1GB or so) or Iperf through the concentrator, and measure the difference between DES, 3DES, and AES, may show which was processed by SEP.