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Re: carrick, Blowfish & the NSA




[email protected] writes:
> If it's the one that's in applied crypto 2 (p.339) and ddj, then it's only
> partial crack on a low number of rounds (according to AC2). Schneier still
> thought it was secure at the time of the publishing of AC2, but then he
> may be biased. (and since this is crypto why not be paranoid, eh?)

Its only the partial crack, from what I know. It still makes me
nervous, and besides there are very good cryptosystems like 3DES
that are available and well studied.

.pm