alt Hacker NewsAny symmetric encryption is ~free compared to the cost of a network request or db query.
In this particular instance, Speck would be ideal since it supports a 96-bit block size https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speck_(cipher)
Any symmetric encryption is ~free compared to the cost of a network request or db query.
In this particular instance, Speck would be ideal since it supports a 96-bit block size https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speck_(cipher)
Symmetric encryption is computationally ~free, but most of them are conceptually complex. The purpose of encryption here isn't security, it's obfuscation in the service of dissuading people from depending on something they shouldn't, so using the absolutely simplest thing that could possibly work is a positive.