Blowfish Performance

[Andrew Loewenstern]

dstoler at globalpac.com writes:
>  Encryption and decryption are faster than the fastest DES
>  implementation I've found, but the key expansion (subkey
>  generation) is slow.

If you read the Blowfish design goals in Applied Cryptography you will find  
that it purposely has slow key expansion in order to hamper brute force  
cryptanalysis.


andrew