Pgp

I have migrated to a new Open PGP key please read my transition statement.

I benchmarked a few of the gpg ciphers. I created a 1GB file from /dev/urandom with dd. Running “gpg –version” gives a list of available ciphers. I then ran “time cat test | gpg –symmetric –cipher-algo TWOFISH > test.enc” for each cipher to see how fast they all were. It’s not amazingly accurate but it gave a good indication which one to avoid! I ran this on my “Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz”, 2.6.30 gives this 4256 bogomips for what it’s worth. Anyway, on with the results.