For compression, it depends on your data mix. If much of it is mail and web stuff, then the compression hit is well offset by the number/size of packets to encrypt.
Blowfish efficiency is not good for large key sizes. And it is still a 64 bit cipher (why schinier and whiting invented twofish). AES is the way to go, with the HMAC-SHA1-96 MAC; no justification for the SHA2 MAC at this point.
For compression, it depends on your data mix. If much of it is mail and web stuff, then the compression hit is well offset by the number/size of packets to encrypt.
Blowfish efficiency is not good for large key sizes. And it is still a 64 bit cipher (why schinier and whiting invented twofish). AES is the way to go, with the HMAC-SHA1-96 MAC; no justification for the SHA2 MAC at this point.