From: Andrew Loewenstern <andrew_loewenstern@il.us.swissbank.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 08:49:02 -0800 (PST)
To: dstoler@globalpac.com (dstoler)
Subject: Re: Blowfish Performance
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dstoler@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