Re: blowfish's keylen

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Bruce Schneier (schneier@counterpane.com)
Thu, 02 Jul 1998 00:21:37 -0500


At 06:23 PM 7/1/98 -0700, bram wrote:
>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?

You must be thinking of block size.

Bruce
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