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Re: Blowfish ain't broken
At 09:28 AM 4/14/96 -0700, Jerry Whiting wrote:
>> Perry writes:
>> They won't sweat over it long. Blowfish was broken.
>
>My understanding is that Blowfish using only 3 rounds, not the full 16, has
been
>broken. And yes, duplicate entries in an S-box are weak keys.
>
>carrick uses the full 16 rounds and we check for weak keys.
I thought there was a variant of Blowfish that fixed the problems that had
been found with the algorythm. I believe it was called "Blowfish-SK". (I
need to check my archives for further details.)
Are you using the original Blowfish or the improved version?
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