Re: blowfish's keylen

bram (bram@gawth.com)
Wed, 1 Jul 1998 18:23:46 -0700 (PDT)

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On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Hamdi Tounsi wrote:

> in various papers decribing blowfish, it was mentioned that the key can
> be as long as 448 bits (14 long words).

I gather from the stuff I've read that the only form of blowfish which has
been extensively used/cryptanalyzed is the 64-bit one, so my
implementation of it only supports that. Does anyone know if this is
reasonable, or am I living in a state of sin?

-Bram

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