Re: The importance of IVs
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Re: The importance of IVs

From: Paul Rubin <//phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid>
Date: Sat Aug 27 2005 - 23:14:25 CEST

"mobius30" <mobius30@hushmail.com> writes:
> Well, I guess I'm kind of old-school then... Seriously though, all
> jokes aside, question: Has Blowfish with a 448-bit key every been
> brute forced? Even with known plain text?

No. There is a class of known weak keys for reduced-round variants.

> Agreed. I've seen several apps (there are several references to apps
> on Schneier's web site). But I agree, I'm not sure if any are in VB
> .NET. You may ask "why re-invent the wheel?" but I'm just trying to
> learn something new and accomplish something new (at least new to me).

Always a good thing to do.
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:51:11 2005