What is the fastest encryption algorithm?

Question

Cryptography

In short, the question is simple, I need to send information from one computer to another.
The data will be sent almost constantly, and the speed of this all is important to me.
I need to encrypt the data from the sender's PC and decrypt the data from the recipient's PC as fast as possible.
JP: Python
What do you recommend?

Answer 1

Take AES, its hardware support is available in most modern processors.

Answer 2

It depends on what balance of speed / security you need.
The fastest is XOR.
But the most unreliable.