1996-04-16 - Re: carrick, Blowfish & the NSA

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From: K00l Secrets <secret@secret.alias.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 14:59:27 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: carrick, Blowfish & the NSA
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.92.960414121820.358A-100000@gak> "Mark M." <markm@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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