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Re: carrick, Blowfish & the NSA

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Subject: Re: carrick, Blowfish & the NSA
From: K00l Secrets <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 22:15:01 -0500
In-reply-to: "Mark M."'s message of Sun, 14 Apr 1996 12:24:19 -0400 (EDT)
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.92.960414121820.358A-100000@gak> "Mark M." <[email protected]> writes:

> I haven't heard of any efficient cryptanalysis against Blowfish.  I
> know there are weak keys, but they are difficult to exploit.  16
> round Blowfish can be broken using differential cryptanalysis with
> 2^128+1 chosen plaintexts.

Doesn't this assume known S-boxes, though?  If so, since the S-boxes
are key dependent, is this anything to worry about?

References:
- Re: carrick, Blowfish & the NSA
  - From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>

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