carrick, Blowfish & the NSA
K00l Secrets
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Mon Apr 15 23:59:27 PDT 1996
In article <Pine.LNX.3.92.960414121820.358A-100000 at gak> "Mark M." <markm at voicenet.com> 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?
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