I 100% believe you. All of my speed testing revolves around benchmarking ciphers with openssh. The fastest was arcfour and the second fastest was blowfish. A

I 100% believe you. All of my speed testing revolves around benchmarking ciphers with openssh. The fastest was arcfour and the second fastest was blowfish. After that was aes128... But my company used AMD for whatever reason. I suspect though that if client and server both have AES support built into the cpu or use a crypto chip that AES would be the fastest as you said. My point, however, was just to counter the speculation that Google uses RC4 because they misinterpreted BEAST results.