[Mcrypt-users] Encryption speed

[vherva@v.iki.fi]

Hi, 

mcrypt looks like quite nice piece of software.

I was wondering if there is any comparison chart on encryption speed of the
various ciphers (with and without compression)? I couldn't find a good one
with a google search... Also, ìt would be nice to know how mcrypt stacks
up against other implementations (in particular, the assembler ones)? 

I know I could do the tests myself, but I would be surprised if anyone
hasn't done so already.

What I'm actually looking for is a *cheap* way of encrypting large backups -
they will be placed in relatively safe place, but encryption would be nice
to have just in case. But I wouldn't want to trade off the backup speed
(harddisk copying speed) for this...

So far I found out that light compression (--openpgp-z 1) and a cheap
algorithm (such as arcfour) gives almost sufficient performance on my
hardware, but it definetely could be faster.