Timeline for What encryption should I use: Blowfish, Twofish, or Threefish?
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| Oct 6, 2018 at 4:29 | comment | added | forest | @CodesInChaos AES with AES-NI in EME2 mode would likely be faster than Threefish for full disk encryption, despite the fact that EME2 requires two passes of the cipher. | |
| Dec 24, 2016 at 13:12 | comment | added | CodesInChaos | I'd consider Threefish for full-disk-encryption. It's naturally tweakable, so it doesn't need XTS mode and the large block-size slightly improves security. | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 11:54 | comment | added | Maarten Bodewes♦ | Then again, he was probably focused on Skein at the time, it was at the start of the SHA-3 competition. | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 11:47 | comment | added | Maarten Bodewes♦ | When I discussed this very shortly with Bruce Schneier he wasn't showing interest in using Threefish directly as a cipher (I had an early, independent, implementation of Skein / Threefish). | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 0:51 | history | edited | Maarten Bodewes♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 21, 2016 at 19:23 | history | edited | Maarten Bodewes♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 21, 2016 at 18:44 | history | answered | Maarten Bodewes♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |