Re: WARNING: This Message Actually Contains a Question

Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> writes:

Bruce Schneier's book Applied Cryptography discusses Blowfish (no surprise, since it's his algorithm) and I think also discusses GOST. Blowfish is very fast once you've finished the (deliberately slow) key schedule. It appears to be tolerably strong, though there hasn't been as much analysis on it as on RC4 or IDEA yet, much less DES.

A widely available C implementation of Blowfish had a bug, weakening its security under some circumstances. Make sure to use the corrected version. (The bug was in the C program, not the algorithm itself.) --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps