Why is blowfish so slow? Other fast algorithms?

Adam Shostack adam at homeport.org
Mon Jan 22 08:16:47 PST 1996


David Mazieres wrote:

| First, can someone tell me if the latest version of blowfish (the one
| in Applied Crypto 2nd edition) is available online somewhere?  I
| looked at a bunch of crypto ftp servers and could only find an older
| version of blowfish that did not have the blf_ctx structure allowing
| multiple keys to be active at a time.

Did you check ftp.dsi.unimi.it?  I seem to remember them having the
latest source right after Crypto95.  Also, ftp.csua.berkeley.edu
should have it.  (Their code is version 1.3; do you know what version
you're after?)

Adam


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